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32: The Story of Ted Chiang and Others

 

00:00:00   the impound horrible comcast number 32 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/0">TS</a>]

00:00:13   welcome back to be uncomfortable podcast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/13">TS</a>]

00:00:15   i am doing smell your host i am joined [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/15">TS</a>]

00:00:17   today by our usual book club rogues [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/17">TS</a>]

00:00:20   gallery if you ignore the last book club [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/20">TS</a>]

00:00:23   podcast which I wasn't on and in fact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/23">TS</a>]

00:00:25   only listened to yesterday but let's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/25">TS</a>]

00:00:28   ignore that because i had more in on it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/28">TS</a>]

00:00:30   and therefore it doesn't count [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/30">TS</a>]

00:00:31   so our usual our usual book club rogues [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/31">TS</a>]

00:00:33   gallery Glenn Fleischman joins us hello [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/33">TS</a>]

00:00:35   Glenn hi thanks for having me thanks for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/35">TS</a>]

00:00:38   reading the book as always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/38">TS</a>]

00:00:39   Scott McNulty also quite literally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/39">TS</a>]

00:00:41   gentleman who has read the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/41">TS</a>]

00:00:42   yes yes you have read the book I concur [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/42">TS</a>]

00:00:47   alright thank you for confirming and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/47">TS</a>]

00:00:48   joining us yet another person who is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/48">TS</a>]

00:00:51   capable of reading things and speaking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/51">TS</a>]

00:00:53   about them you wouldn't think this would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/53">TS</a>]

00:00:55   be rare with our group and yet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/55">TS</a>]

00:00:57   thank you too Lisa Schmeisser who joins [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/57">TS</a>]

00:00:59   us again today I learned how to read for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/59">TS</a>]

00:01:02   this podcast that's right reading will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/62">TS</a>]

00:01:04   get you far and you know why because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/64">TS</a>]

00:01:06   reading is fundamental [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/66">TS</a>]

00:01:08   take a look at it in a book a Reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/68">TS</a>]

00:01:11   Rainbow mhm so our subject today on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/71">TS</a>]

00:01:15   book club is actually short stories and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/75">TS</a>]

00:01:18   in particular we're going to look at a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/78">TS</a>]

00:01:19   short story collection along with some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/79">TS</a>]

00:01:21   loose assorted short stories by AI [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/81">TS</a>]

00:01:24   believe seattle-based author is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/84">TS</a>]

00:01:26   right Glenn that is my understanding i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/86">TS</a>]

00:01:28   know people who know him a guy named ted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/88">TS</a>]

00:01:30   chang who doesn't ted chang doesn't have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/90">TS</a>]

00:01:33   a massive output of writing he seems to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/93">TS</a>]

00:01:38   be a slow writer a methodical writer but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/98">TS</a>]

00:01:41   he released just a few years ago a short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/101">TS</a>]

00:01:43   story collection called stories of your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/103">TS</a>]

00:01:45   life and others and it was recommended [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/105">TS</a>]

00:01:48   to be by Greg NOS our good friend and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/108">TS</a>]

00:01:50   member of the podcast you decided not to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/110">TS</a>]

00:01:52   show up tonight even though he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/112">TS</a>]

00:01:53   recommended the book to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/113">TS</a>]

00:01:54   thanks Greg but teaching has been has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/114">TS</a>]

00:01:59   been critically acclaimed he's won the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/119">TS</a>]

00:02:02   award has been nominated for lots of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/122">TS</a>]

00:02:03   awards in the hole in the science [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/123">TS</a>]

00:02:05   fiction writing community and he's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/125">TS</a>]

00:02:08   good writer so I thought we would we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/128">TS</a>]

00:02:10   would talk a little bit about these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/130">TS</a>]

00:02:12   books if you haven't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/132">TS</a>]

00:02:13   error that the short stories if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/133">TS</a>]

00:02:14   haven't read them I I doubt we're gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/134">TS</a>]

00:02:16   get some deep down into the spoilers but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/136">TS</a>]

00:02:18   if so will fire off the spoiler horn but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/138">TS</a>]

00:02:21   with so many short stories it's really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/141">TS</a>]

00:02:23   not about the big magic nations of plot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/143">TS</a>]

00:02:26   like it is with novels it's a lot about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/146">TS</a>]

00:02:27   just a sort of taking that that journey [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/147">TS</a>]

00:02:30   and and and getting a little nugget of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/150">TS</a>]

00:02:32   the story so so anyway Ted Chang I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/152">TS</a>]

00:02:36   we've all read some or all of the stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/156">TS</a>]

00:02:39   that he's written not sure how to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/159">TS</a>]

00:02:40   approach this guy i don't really want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/160">TS</a>]

00:02:42   go down a bulleted list of of every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/162">TS</a>]

00:02:44   single short story he's written although [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/164">TS</a>]

00:02:46   we could maybe start by talking about a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/166">TS</a>]

00:02:48   particular story that you found [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/168">TS</a>]

00:02:51   interesting in some way and I'm gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/171">TS</a>]

00:02:52   throw to glen because he's in seattle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/172">TS</a>]

00:02:54   he's got the home court advantage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/174">TS</a>]

00:02:56   we should talk we can talk about themes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/176">TS</a>]

00:02:58   after we talked about stories i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/178">TS</a>]

00:02:59   it's a lot of things run through this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/179">TS</a>]

00:03:00   but I think story of my story of your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/180">TS</a>]

00:03:03   life is to me it's one of the best [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/183">TS</a>]

00:03:06   pieces that story in this collection is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/186">TS</a>]

00:03:08   one of the best pieces of writing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/188">TS</a>]

00:03:11   I've read ever have to say because it he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/191">TS</a>]

00:03:14   does something that I have the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/194">TS</a>]

00:03:16   feeling when i read certain you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/196">TS</a>]

00:03:18   terrifically cerebral science-fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/198">TS</a>]

00:03:23   authors like I'm looking I'm looking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/203">TS</a>]

00:03:24   across the room at the massive anthem [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/204">TS</a>]

00:03:27   which has its own bookshelf for instance [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/207">TS</a>]

00:03:29   the extensions and FM i think it's i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/209">TS</a>]

00:03:31   think it takes up a quarter of the space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/211">TS</a>]

00:03:32   of my living room to hold it and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/212">TS</a>]

00:03:36   when i read an mi felt like oh it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/216">TS</a>]

00:03:38   painful to read initially because he was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/218">TS</a>]

00:03:40   rewriting my brain as i wrote as i read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/220">TS</a>]

00:03:42   it and i felt too much smaller extent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/222">TS</a>]

00:03:45   story of your life requires that you as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/225">TS</a>]

00:03:49   you read it you are a dealing with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/229">TS</a>]

00:03:52   different tenses that the first person [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/232">TS</a>]

00:03:54   author whose up the professor is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/234">TS</a>]

00:03:57   professor of linguistics opposes maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/237">TS</a>]

00:03:59   that the best way to describe her and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/239">TS</a>]

00:04:02   she she's talking about the future as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/242">TS</a>]

00:04:06   the present and the past sort of as the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/246">TS</a>]

00:04:09   past and it's confusing where she's at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/249">TS</a>]

00:04:12   and she seems to be talking to an infant [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/252">TS</a>]

00:04:14   and as a story involves she's moving [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/254">TS</a>]

00:04:17   backwards and forwards through time and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/257">TS</a>]

00:04:19   you think always this one of these time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/259">TS</a>]

00:04:21   travel stories you get precognitive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/261">TS</a>]

00:04:23   powers and what it turns out to be is so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/263">TS</a>]

00:04:26   like most mundane and remarkable at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/266">TS</a>]

00:04:29   same time that it's I find it kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/269">TS</a>]

00:04:31   mind-blowing like I've never read a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/271">TS</a>]

00:04:33   concept in science fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/273">TS</a>]

00:04:34   that's so beautifully encompass the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/274">TS</a>]

00:04:36   notions of free will and predestination [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/276">TS</a>]

00:04:39   and all that stuff while also being a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/279">TS</a>]

00:04:42   good story and being good sci-fi and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/282">TS</a>]

00:04:45   really moving me one of the things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/285">TS</a>]

00:04:47   that's it i think this is a classic ted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/287">TS</a>]

00:04:49   chang characteristic is that your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/289">TS</a>]

00:04:51   narrator is not to be trusted but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/291">TS</a>]

00:04:54   not an unreliable narrator in the sense [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/294">TS</a>]

00:04:55   of like everything she says is a lie but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/295">TS</a>]

00:04:57   more like you really have to read it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/297">TS</a>]

00:04:59   carefully because she's telling you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/299">TS</a>]

00:05:00   things that seem to be absolute facts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/300">TS</a>]

00:05:02   and then anybody in the story like wait [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/302">TS</a>]

00:05:04   a minute and i think i've read some of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/304">TS</a>]

00:05:05   these stories three or four maybe this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/305">TS</a>]

00:05:06   one probably five times as many more I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/306">TS</a>]

00:05:09   over the years and on multiple readings [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/309">TS</a>]

00:05:13   are like she she refuses to knowledge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/313">TS</a>]

00:05:16   how she's changed reality how she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/316">TS</a>]

00:05:19   changed from future you know she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/319">TS</a>]

00:05:20   saying it's impossible and that's part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/320">TS</a>]

00:05:22   of the malleability of of Chinese [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/322">TS</a>]

00:05:24   writing is that he is really fascinated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/324">TS</a>]

00:05:26   with the notion of how much is under our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/326">TS</a>]

00:05:28   own control how much to outside forces [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/328">TS</a>]

00:05:30   whether it's God or aliens or God aliens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/330">TS</a>]

00:05:33   you know God kings and King gods are in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/333">TS</a>]

00:05:36   charge of us are robots human beings and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/336">TS</a>]

00:05:39   their power is derived from strange [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/339">TS</a>]

00:05:41   motive force like all these things but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/341">TS</a>]

00:05:43   what is actually allowing us to make [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/343">TS</a>]

00:05:45   decisions what we think is along this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/345">TS</a>]

00:05:47   make decisions and how do we ascend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/347">TS</a>]

00:05:49   beyond that and so this is I think this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/349">TS</a>]

00:05:52   is like the perfect gem of a story both [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/352">TS</a>]

00:05:55   on a larger scale inside all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/355">TS</a>]

00:05:56   collections to it's funny that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/356">TS</a>]

00:05:58   mentioned the idea that this is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/358">TS</a>]

00:06:00   hacking your brain a little bit like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/360">TS</a>]

00:06:01   like you you said about an mi believe on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/361">TS</a>]

00:06:03   a previous podcast as well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/363">TS</a>]

00:06:05   not because that he's got me that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/365">TS</a>]

00:06:07   actually the that's actually the point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/367">TS</a>]

00:06:09   of the story as well is that the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/369">TS</a>]

00:06:13   main characters brain is hacked by her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/373">TS</a>]

00:06:17   understanding of this language which as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/377">TS</a>]

00:06:19   an old com major I I throw it back to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/379">TS</a>]

00:06:21   the sapir-whorf hypothesis that the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/381">TS</a>]

00:06:23   your language describes the world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/383">TS</a>]

00:06:25   becomes the way you view the world and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/385">TS</a>]

00:06:28   it's taken to this kind of wacky sci fi [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/388">TS</a>]

00:06:30   xtreme here where you've got an alien [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/390">TS</a>]

00:06:32   race that doesn't essentially doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/392">TS</a>]

00:06:34   believe in linear time there's this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/394">TS</a>]

00:06:36   whole concept that you know the universe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/396">TS</a>]

00:06:38   there is free will and yet the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/398">TS</a>]

00:06:39   same time every event in the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/399">TS</a>]

00:06:41   history of the universe before you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/401">TS</a>]

00:06:43   past and future it is happening [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/403">TS</a>]

00:06:45   simultaneously and is sort of part of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/405">TS</a>]

00:06:47   crystal or something like that and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/407">TS</a>]

00:06:48   their concept of past present future [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/408">TS</a>]

00:06:51   doesn't really exist and so as she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/411">TS</a>]

00:06:53   learns their language this is which has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/413">TS</a>]

00:06:55   got some crazy name it's like every race [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/415">TS</a>]

00:06:58   her perception yeah it changes her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/418">TS</a>]

00:07:00   actual perception of time so that by the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/420">TS</a>]

00:07:02   time you get to the end and she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/422">TS</a>]

00:07:04   learned heptapod be she good and she can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/424">TS</a>]

00:07:08   no longer perceive time when she can she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/428">TS</a>]

00:07:11   can perceive time in both ways because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/431">TS</a>]

00:07:13   she's learning this language but it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/433">TS</a>]

00:07:15   that it's kind of Wow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/435">TS</a>]

00:07:17   far out man but it's it's in some ways [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/437">TS</a>]

00:07:20   it's just what a good short story should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/440">TS</a>]

00:07:22   do right which is change your way of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/442">TS</a>]

00:07:24   thinking in some way except on this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/444">TS</a>]

00:07:26   crazy you know sci-fi scale with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/446">TS</a>]

00:07:29   personal touch of her talking to her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/449">TS</a>]

00:07:32   child also throw in so there's a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/452">TS</a>]

00:07:34   stuff in the blender the thing i noticed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/454">TS</a>]

00:07:36   when i was reading through the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/456">TS</a>]

00:07:37   stories is I came to think of three [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/457">TS</a>]

00:07:40   stories as sort of an interrelated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/460">TS</a>]

00:07:42   triptik on understand which is about a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/462">TS</a>]

00:07:44   guy who undergoes an experimental [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/464">TS</a>]

00:07:47   treatment and becomes massively [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/467">TS</a>]

00:07:51   intelligence it's what it's like flowers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/471">TS</a>]

00:07:53   for algernon yeah to the 10th power [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/473">TS</a>]

00:07:55   yep you know only without the only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/475">TS</a>]

00:07:57   without the hideous regression but I saw [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/477">TS</a>]

00:07:59   understand story of your life and 72 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/479">TS</a>]

00:08:02   letters as complementary works and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/482">TS</a>]

00:08:05   reason I saw them Leslie is because in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/485">TS</a>]

00:08:07   every single one of them the power of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/487">TS</a>]

00:08:10   language to shape reality and to shape [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/490">TS</a>]

00:08:13   perception is a pivotal part of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/493">TS</a>]

00:08:15   story and what it reminded me of was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/495">TS</a>]

00:08:18   plot point in snow crash where well you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/498">TS</a>]

00:08:21   know when when it turns out that there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/501">TS</a>]

00:08:23   is the generative grammar at the union [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/503">TS</a>]

00:08:25   Steffensen bars very heavily from noam [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/505">TS</a>]

00:08:27   chomsky early on linguistic theories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/507">TS</a>]

00:08:29   that you know there's a generative [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/509">TS</a>]

00:08:31   generative grammar that is used to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/511">TS</a>]

00:08:32   describe reality as we know if you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/512">TS</a>]

00:08:34   hack the grammar you can have human [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/514">TS</a>]

00:08:35   behavior and i found that those ideas [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/515">TS</a>]

00:08:38   were very subtly interwoven especially [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/518">TS</a>]

00:08:40   through understand where the whole point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/520">TS</a>]

00:08:43   of the story is that the protagonist is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/523">TS</a>]

00:08:45   taken down by somebody who's grasp the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/525">TS</a>]

00:08:47   rules of the grammar faster than he has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/527">TS</a>]

00:08:49   and in story of your life the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/529">TS</a>]

00:08:52   protagonist at the center of it learns a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/532">TS</a>]

00:08:54   whole new grammar thanks to pod be and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/534">TS</a>]

00:08:57   that radically altered her perception of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/537">TS</a>]

00:08:59   space and time and then in 72 letters it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/539">TS</a>]

00:09:03   was the ability to assign a specific [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/543">TS</a>]

00:09:06   etymology to a phenomena that is going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/546">TS</a>]

00:09:10   to change the way an entire species [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/550">TS</a>]

00:09:12   reproduces and is going to fundamentally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/552">TS</a>]

00:09:13   alter human society couple generations [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/553">TS</a>]

00:09:15   down the line and I found it fascinating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/555">TS</a>]

00:09:17   that he kept returning to this theme of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/557">TS</a>]

00:09:21   you know once you can decode the grammar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/561">TS</a>]

00:09:24   you can take you can decode reality or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/564">TS</a>]

00:09:26   once you alter a language you can alter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/566">TS</a>]

00:09:28   the outcome of reality it seems very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/568">TS</a>]

00:09:30   very much reflective of his day job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/570">TS</a>]

00:09:33   which is as a technical writer who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/573">TS</a>]

00:09:35   documents code you know it it deals with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/575">TS</a>]

00:09:37   closed systems and the idea that once [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/577">TS</a>]

00:09:39   you decode once once you've been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/579">TS</a>]

00:09:41   mystified the system and set down the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/581">TS</a>]

00:09:42   boundaries and what the outcomes are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/582">TS</a>]

00:09:44   going to be in order to change the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/584">TS</a>]

00:09:46   outcome all you have to do is is is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/586">TS</a>]

00:09:47   understand manipulate the parameters i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/587">TS</a>]

00:09:50   want to read a very short passage to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/590">TS</a>]

00:09:52   take a lead from Jason style is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/592">TS</a>]

00:09:54   carefully marked stuff in previous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/594">TS</a>]

00:09:55   podcast to read on this this requires a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/595">TS</a>]

00:09:58   spoiler or I think it does get away with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/598">TS</a>]

00:10:00   more of the story of your life away but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/600">TS</a>]

00:10:01   it says them it's a I don't have the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/601">TS</a>]

00:10:03   page 107 in a some addition here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/603">TS</a>]

00:10:06   uh-huh and it's the this the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/606">TS</a>]

00:10:09   person narrator narrator is talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/609">TS</a>]

00:10:10   about how about a was the spoken [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/610">TS</a>]

00:10:12   language and have to plot B is this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/612">TS</a>]

00:10:13   written language that they've been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/613">TS</a>]

00:10:14   working at it like a simultaneous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/614">TS</a>]

00:10:16   writing where you write the whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/616">TS</a>]

00:10:17   concept all at once but you seem to need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/617">TS</a>]

00:10:19   to know the entire outcome to write the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/619">TS</a>]

00:10:22   idea Graham that the sort of resident [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/622">TS</a>]

00:10:25   rub presentation of the idea such as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/625">TS</a>]

00:10:27   before I learn how to think and heptapod [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/627">TS</a>]

00:10:29   be my memories crew like a column of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/629">TS</a>]

00:10:31   cigarette ash laid down by the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/631">TS</a>]

00:10:33   infinitesimal sliver of combustion that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/633">TS</a>]

00:10:35   was my consciousness marking the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/635">TS</a>]

00:10:36   sequential present after I learned at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/636">TS</a>]

00:10:38   the top heptapod be new memories fell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/638">TS</a>]

00:10:40   into place like gigantic blocks each one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/640">TS</a>]

00:10:43   measuring years in duration and though [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/643">TS</a>]

00:10:45   they didn't arrive in order or land [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/645">TS</a>]

00:10:46   continuously they soon composed a period [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/646">TS</a>]

00:10:49   of five decades is the period period [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/649">TS</a>]

00:10:51   during which i don't have to hide be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/651">TS</a>]

00:10:52   well enough to thinking it starting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/652">TS</a>]

00:10:54   during my interviews with flapper and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/654">TS</a>]

00:10:55   raspberry the two aliens and ending with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/655">TS</a>]

00:10:57   my deaf [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/657">TS</a>]

00:10:58   and for me that encapsulates the stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/658">TS</a>]

00:11:00   just terrifying thing where she is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/660">TS</a>]

00:11:02   gaining not only the perception of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/662">TS</a>]

00:11:04   future but the perception of how she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/664">TS</a>]

00:11:06   perceives the future as well it's it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/666">TS</a>]

00:11:09   beautiful passages and it's also one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/669">TS</a>]

00:11:12   the things I've noticed his linguistic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/672">TS</a>]

00:11:14   seems to be something that several sites [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/674">TS</a>]

00:11:16   by authors tend to return to over and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/676">TS</a>]

00:11:17   over again for example r us at all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/677">TS</a>]

00:11:21   familiar with from suzette elgin Hayden [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/681">TS</a>]

00:11:25   don't know what naughty that's not us [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/685">TS</a>]

00:11:28   not even Scott you stop the band Lisa [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/688">TS</a>]

00:11:31   she wrote a trilogy although the third [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/691">TS</a>]

00:11:34   book as is the case in many trilogies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/694">TS</a>]

00:11:36   the book was many many years after the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/696">TS</a>]

00:11:37   first two and goes off in the whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/697">TS</a>]

00:11:39   wacky we're direction but the premise of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/699">TS</a>]

00:11:42   her first two books is that alien races [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/702">TS</a>]

00:11:45   have made contact with humans and as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/705">TS</a>]

00:11:48   result linguists have managed to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/708">TS</a>]

00:11:50   consolidate most of the political [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/710">TS</a>]

00:11:51   economic power [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/711">TS</a>]

00:11:53   I like that imagine academics must love [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/713">TS</a>]

00:11:59   those books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/719">TS</a>]

00:12:00   well in there i think one of the reasons [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/720">TS</a>]

00:12:02   she's not widely known is because it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/722">TS</a>]

00:12:04   also set in a dystopian future where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/724">TS</a>]

00:12:06   women have been reduced to legal channel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/726">TS</a>]

00:12:08   and so what the books talk about is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/728">TS</a>]

00:12:11   way women create a subversive language [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/731">TS</a>]

00:12:13   of their own to foment social rebellion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/733">TS</a>]

00:12:15   and it actually fails but aside from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/735">TS</a>]

00:12:18   that down or outcome what's really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/738">TS</a>]

00:12:19   fascinating is how interwoven through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/739">TS</a>]

00:12:21   the books um is the contention that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/741">TS</a>]

00:12:25   more aware you become of how language is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/745">TS</a>]

00:12:28   put together the more where you become [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/748">TS</a>]

00:12:30   of how your perceptions of the world are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/750">TS</a>]

00:12:32   assembled and that by altering one or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/752">TS</a>]

00:12:34   altering the other you know you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/754">TS</a>]

00:12:36   change the way you think and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/756">TS</a>]

00:12:37   changes the way you communicate or you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/757">TS</a>]

00:12:39   can change the way you communicate and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/759">TS</a>]

00:12:41   that in turn will influence your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/761">TS</a>]

00:12:42   perceptions and create a feedback loop [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/762">TS</a>]

00:12:44   that alters the outcomes of what you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/764">TS</a>]

00:12:46   want to do i think not surprising the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/766">TS</a>]

00:12:48   writers would get into this stuff given [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/768">TS</a>]

00:12:50   them the entire idea of writing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/770">TS</a>]

00:12:52   something is to put words in a sequence [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/772">TS</a>]

00:12:55   that causes an audience to have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/775">TS</a>]

00:12:58   reaction and behave in a certain way or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/778">TS</a>]

00:13:01   think in a certain way that is what a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/781">TS</a>]

00:13:03   writer does so you know but you but you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/783">TS</a>]

00:13:06   know the way Chang does it as he puts it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/786">TS</a>]

00:13:08   in this kind of amazing a very well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/788">TS</a>]

00:13:10   executed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/790">TS</a>]

00:13:11   I was going to say sci-fi trapping [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/791">TS</a>]

00:13:14   although a lot of his stuff is is is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/794">TS</a>]

00:13:16   weirder than that even I mean I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/796">TS</a>]

00:13:18   understand is a very almost cyberpunk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/798">TS</a>]

00:13:21   kind of story about this guy who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/801">TS</a>]

00:13:23   infiltrates the computer networks and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/803">TS</a>]

00:13:26   because he's super intelligent and he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/806">TS</a>]

00:13:28   finds he's got a counterpart in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/808">TS</a>]

00:13:30   essentially have this little motion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/810">TS</a>]

00:13:32   high-speed simultaneously dual-band [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/812">TS</a>]

00:13:35   story of your life has wacky aliens who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/815">TS</a>]

00:13:38   appear and our are like big octopus [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/818">TS</a>]

00:13:41   aliens but he's got some other other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/821">TS</a>]

00:13:45   stories that are in a very different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/825">TS</a>]

00:13:48   tower of Babylon and a story that's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/828">TS</a>]

00:13:51   in his collection the merchant at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/831">TS</a>]

00:13:53   alchemist gate are both stories that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/833">TS</a>]

00:13:56   have a middle eastern flavor and our are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/836">TS</a>]

00:13:59   clearly sort of sci-fi or fantasy in one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/839">TS</a>]

00:14:02   way and yet in and they don't have that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/842">TS</a>]

00:14:04   flavor at all there that it's an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/844">TS</a>]

00:14:06   entirely different much more exotic you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/846">TS</a>]

00:14:08   know not your usual setting for a for a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/848">TS</a>]

00:14:11   sci-fi story so we kind of goes all over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/851">TS</a>]

00:14:13   the place [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/853">TS</a>]

00:14:14   yeah and i will say that the tower of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/854">TS</a>]

00:14:16   Babylon was my least favorite story and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/856">TS</a>]

00:14:20   it is the first one in the compilation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/860">TS</a>]

00:14:23   so I thought folks this is not going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/863">TS</a>]

00:14:25   well you know I you warned me about that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/865">TS</a>]

00:14:27   and I went back some like life all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/867">TS</a>]

00:14:29   stories were great and then went back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/869">TS</a>]

00:14:30   was like oh yeah that one's a little you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/870">TS</a>]

00:14:33   know tedious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/873">TS</a>]

00:14:34   yeah well I mean yeah it's a guy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/874">TS</a>]

00:14:36   ascending the tower and it goes on it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/876">TS</a>]

00:14:39   does go on to build and then at the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/879">TS</a>]

00:14:41   there kind of is this where it went [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/881">TS</a>]

00:14:45   oh you know it kind of reminded me of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/885">TS</a>]

00:14:48   some of James Morrow's work are you guys [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/888">TS</a>]

00:14:50   familiar jamesemorrow know it's only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/890">TS</a>]

00:14:52   dream only but only got daughter where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/892">TS</a>]

00:14:55   somebody raises the the immaculately [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/895">TS</a>]

00:14:58   conceived daughter of god on telling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/898">TS</a>]

00:15:01   Jehovah Jehovah more jobs body falls to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/901">TS</a>]

00:15:04   earth manage a close [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/904">TS</a>]

00:15:06   he's one of my favorite authors he did a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/906">TS</a>]

00:15:08   collection of short stories Bible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/908">TS</a>]

00:15:09   stories for adults where he also has a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/909">TS</a>]

00:15:12   Tower of Babel story a better one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/912">TS</a>]

00:15:16   oh yeah oh yeah except James burrows a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/916">TS</a>]

00:15:19   lot angrier than Ted chanc so it's you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/919">TS</a>]

00:15:22   can't really read him when you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/922">TS</a>]

00:15:23   feeling bad about yourself for Humanity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/923">TS</a>]

00:15:25   because you'll end up just you know Oh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/925">TS</a>]

00:15:26   what is the what is the meaning of it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/926">TS</a>]

00:15:28   all but he's worth reading if you're not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/928">TS</a>]

00:15:30   if you're in a calm emotionally level [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/930">TS</a>]

00:15:32   black towing job is as a good one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/932">TS</a>]

00:15:36   because they you know he got dies and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/936">TS</a>]

00:15:39   remind his corpse floating in the ocean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/939">TS</a>]

00:15:40   just amuses me so so Lisa to you have am [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/940">TS</a>]

00:15:46   is your is your sort of pick for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/946">TS</a>]

00:15:48   story that you found most interesting is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/948">TS</a>]

00:15:49   that is that understand or is it the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/949">TS</a>]

00:15:51   trip ticket or do you have something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/951">TS</a>]

00:15:52   else [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/952">TS</a>]

00:15:53   the triptych i thought was fascinating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/953">TS</a>]

00:15:54   automatic perspective and I thought that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/954">TS</a>]

00:15:57   perhaps tells you a lot about ideas that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/957">TS</a>]

00:15:59   that the author is perpetually chewing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/959">TS</a>]

00:16:01   over my favorite story out of all of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/961">TS</a>]

00:16:03   them and i'm not sure this wasn't the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/963">TS</a>]

00:16:05   collections exhalation right I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/965">TS</a>]

00:16:08   that's not in the collection yeah i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/968">TS</a>]

00:16:10   really enjoyed exhalation a lot of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/970">TS</a>]

00:16:13   process of this this piece that an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/973">TS</a>]

00:16:16   anatomist from its particular species [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/976">TS</a>]

00:16:18   like the robots with the iron lungs is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/978">TS</a>]

00:16:20   that you under yeah who undertakes to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/980">TS</a>]

00:16:22   detect his own brain and and discovers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/982">TS</a>]

00:16:24   that their unit that the universe is in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/984">TS</a>]

00:16:25   fact shrinking it was a chase and thank [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/985">TS</a>]

00:16:28   you for sucking all the beauty that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/988">TS</a>]

00:16:30   general practice with what is good god [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/990">TS</a>]

00:16:32   is so I I got to say that was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/992">TS</a>]

00:16:34   nominee there's a hugo and how many last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/994">TS</a>]

00:16:36   year and I and I got to the list and I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/996">TS</a>]

00:16:38   got to that one like no Chet chang and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/998">TS</a>]

00:16:40   red nose like wow this is a story about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1000">TS</a>]

00:16:43   some sentient robots who are who have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1003">TS</a>]

00:16:46   evolved from an iron lung machine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1006">TS</a>]

00:16:49   yeah okay and they use gold and they use [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1009">TS</a>]

00:16:52   gold to conduct their thoughts and he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1012">TS</a>]

00:16:53   figures that a relationship and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1013">TS</a>]

00:16:55   says okay by the way we're all doomed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1015">TS</a>]

00:16:57   so i'm writing this down because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1017">TS</a>]

00:16:58   eventually our universe is going to wind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1018">TS</a>]

00:17:00   down but maybe somebody who's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1020">TS</a>]

00:17:01   different species will find us and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1021">TS</a>]

00:17:03   was the combination of the investigative [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1023">TS</a>]

00:17:05   spirit in the story and the tragedy of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1025">TS</a>]

00:17:08   an entire species dying due to the law [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1028">TS</a>]

00:17:10   of physics and the hopefulness of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1030">TS</a>]

00:17:12   discovery and I thought wow this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1032">TS</a>]

00:17:14   pretty much encapsulated so what one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1034">TS</a>]

00:17:17   would hope would be the best of any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1037">TS</a>]

00:17:18   sentient species so i really liked the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1038">TS</a>]

00:17:20   story i think i think it has a lot in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1040">TS</a>]

00:17:24   common with his most recent work the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1044">TS</a>]

00:17:28   lifestyle goals lifecycle of software [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1048">TS</a>]

00:17:30   objects in that and going back to him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1050">TS</a>]

00:17:32   being a tech writer it is about that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1052">TS</a>]

00:17:34   process and and you know there is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1054">TS</a>]

00:17:36   something technical about some of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1056">TS</a>]

00:17:38   stuff that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1058">TS</a>]

00:17:39   he writes especially those two stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1059">TS</a>]

00:17:40   where it's about investigating and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1060">TS</a>]

00:17:43   learning you know whether it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1063">TS</a>]

00:17:44   developing software or being this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1064">TS</a>]

00:17:46   sentiment among machine that learns [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1066">TS</a>]

00:17:48   about the universe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1068">TS</a>]

00:17:50   I'm sorry that I sucked everything out i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1070">TS</a>]

00:17:52   didn't i didn't really I didn't really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1072">TS</a>]

00:17:54   like that story it was i was in it and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1074">TS</a>]

00:17:56   think i was actually so excited it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1076">TS</a>]

00:17:57   by ted chang and I read it and I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1077">TS</a>]

00:17:58   that kind of a letdown but I thought it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1078">TS</a>]

00:18:00   was very creative i I think that it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1080">TS</a>]

00:18:02   a little bit mind-blowing in the sense [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1082">TS</a>]

00:18:04   that it is about this really weird alien [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1084">TS</a>]

00:18:07   what you know creature who is still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1087">TS</a>]

00:18:09   striving to understand the universe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1089">TS</a>]

00:18:11   around it but would you agree that one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1091">TS</a>]

00:18:13   of the Ted changs I think great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1093">TS</a>]

00:18:15   characteristic is that it's clear he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1095">TS</a>]

00:18:17   always exploring an incredible creep [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1097">TS</a>]

00:18:19   conceit and sometimes it's like a sketch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1099">TS</a>]

00:18:21   like you look at an artist working it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1101">TS</a>]

00:18:22   like that's the pencil they didn't fill [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1102">TS</a>]

00:18:24   it in but it's still sort of interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1104">TS</a>]

00:18:26   and are in writers don't usually have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1106">TS</a>]

00:18:27   their writers notebooks get published or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1107">TS</a>]

00:18:29   they talk about their ideas and I feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1109">TS</a>]

00:18:31   sometimes like ted chang for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1111">TS</a>]

00:18:33   understanding works as we started out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1113">TS</a>]

00:18:34   very deliberately so this is the body of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1114">TS</a>]

00:18:36   his work and you know you're pissed i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1116">TS</a>]

00:18:37   sort of guy like I wish I'd novels from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1117">TS</a>]

00:18:40   this fellow and I don't think he works [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1120">TS</a>]

00:18:41   that way but I think some of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1121">TS</a>]

00:18:43   stories like that it's like this is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1123">TS</a>]

00:18:45   fascinating idea sketched out briefly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1125">TS</a>]

00:18:47   and a in a well-written fashion but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1127">TS</a>]

00:18:49   not a story you know it's an idea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1129">TS</a>]

00:18:52   it's a conceit and all of the stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1132">TS</a>]

00:18:53   had a great conceit at the center and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1133">TS</a>]

00:18:57   think that you know how that's a common [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1137">TS</a>]

00:18:58   complaint with sci-fi authors in general [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1138">TS</a>]

00:19:01   right that their ideas are better than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1141">TS</a>]

00:19:03   their writing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1143">TS</a>]

00:19:04   no I didn't we say that you get you end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1144">TS</a>]

00:19:06   up with one good idea and you read if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1146">TS</a>]

00:19:08   you're lucky and you put a novel around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1148">TS</a>]

00:19:09   it because that like the first podcast i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1149">TS</a>]

00:19:12   think it's true i'm still waiting for my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1152">TS</a>]

00:19:13   good idea but I think that changs hit he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1153">TS</a>]

00:19:17   is such a good writer and his ideas are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1157">TS</a>]

00:19:20   so unique that I think that like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1160">TS</a>]

00:19:22   said I think it's a shame that he hasn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1162">TS</a>]

00:19:23   written a novel sure how would we care [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1163">TS</a>]

00:19:27   about them i think the lifecycle of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1167">TS</a>]

00:19:28   software objects which is a very long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1168">TS</a>]

00:19:30   work actually shit makes me wonder what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1170">TS</a>]

00:19:33   the tip the the theoretical ted chang [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1173">TS</a>]

00:19:35   novel would would be like because I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1175">TS</a>]

00:19:38   think lifecycle of software objects is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1178">TS</a>]

00:19:40   not one of his better works it's one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1180">TS</a>]

00:19:42   his longer works but I I'm not sure I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1182">TS</a>]

00:19:44   actually prefer it to some of the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1184">TS</a>]

00:19:46   3i it feels like a very thin idea spread [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1186">TS</a>]

00:19:49   out it's like a Saturday Live sketch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1189">TS</a>]

00:19:51   turned into a movie it's a little bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1191">TS</a>]

00:19:53   loud last night at the roxbury thought I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1193">TS</a>]

00:19:55   was being heart [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1195">TS</a>]

00:19:56   yeah night at the Roxbury 00 and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1196">TS</a>]

00:19:59   thought meet with the iron lung machine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1199">TS</a>]

00:20:01   was hard but I had to try to top you are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1201">TS</a>]

00:20:03   some authors who are much better with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1203">TS</a>]

00:20:05   their ideas because they're in this tiny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1205">TS</a>]

00:20:07   little bubble and you know just enough [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1207">TS</a>]

00:20:09   about it to get you sinking into the old [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1209">TS</a>]

00:20:11   what if and and it lets you explore the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1211">TS</a>]

00:20:14   idea but there's not so much detail [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1214">TS</a>]

00:20:16   where you can pay attention to whether [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1216">TS</a>]

00:20:17   this this world is built out of plywood [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1217">TS</a>]

00:20:19   or wow this item is another profound [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1219">TS</a>]

00:20:21   isn't supposed to be what we have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1221">TS</a>]

00:20:23   great pitching stories this world is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1223">TS</a>]

00:20:25   built out of plywood no matter what my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1225">TS</a>]

00:20:27   classic example of that is Nancy crisis [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1227">TS</a>]

00:20:29   beggars in spain which is a really good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1229">TS</a>]

00:20:30   marbella um you know it's basically what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1230">TS</a>]

00:20:33   happens if you create a class of people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1233">TS</a>]

00:20:34   who'd ever need to sleep and its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1234">TS</a>]

00:20:37   antennae and it's a fantastic short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1237">TS</a>]

00:20:39   story and velour novella but when she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1239">TS</a>]

00:20:42   stretched out to a novel and then again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1242">TS</a>]

00:20:44   made a trilogy you lost the original [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1244">TS</a>]

00:20:47   cool idea which is how fundamentally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1247">TS</a>]

00:20:52   altered someone's character when they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1252">TS</a>]

00:20:53   don't have that downtime when they don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1253">TS</a>]

00:20:55   dream when they're constantly 24-7 you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1255">TS</a>]

00:20:58   lose that really cool idea and it turned [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1258">TS</a>]

00:21:00   instead into this really weird this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1260">TS</a>]

00:21:01   mishmash of bioengineering and class [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1261">TS</a>]

00:21:05   warfare and and americans are dumb and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1265">TS</a>]

00:21:07   consume too much and I would have rather [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1267">TS</a>]

00:21:10   that she had just stopped with the short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1270">TS</a>]

00:21:12   story you know Greg bears great novella [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1272">TS</a>]

00:21:16   blood music got turned and he turned it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1276">TS</a>]

00:21:18   into a novel and exactly the same thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1278">TS</a>]

00:21:20   happened he added some some sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1280">TS</a>]

00:21:22   dubious action scenes and he starts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1282">TS</a>]

00:21:24   earlier in the story and does a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1284">TS</a>]

00:21:27   expansion of of stuff that you know that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1287">TS</a>]

00:21:31   the short story or or novella novelera [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1291">TS</a>]

00:21:34   you know whatever the smaller work is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1294">TS</a>]

00:21:36   pared back to the things that are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1296">TS</a>]

00:21:38   required to tell the story and and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1298">TS</a>]

00:21:41   know it may not necessarily be that way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1301">TS</a>]

00:21:44   if you start with a novel but if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1304">TS</a>]

00:21:45   start with a short story and expanded [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1305">TS</a>]

00:21:47   you can you can sort of see that that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1307">TS</a>]

00:21:49   it's really the stuff that would have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1309">TS</a>]

00:21:51   thrown out right at the stuff that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1311">TS</a>]

00:21:52   wasn't essential and suddenly it's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1312">TS</a>]

00:21:54   padding and it's kind of disappointing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1314">TS</a>]

00:21:56   or you don't like the direction it goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1316">TS</a>]

00:21:58   in for example David Mary second one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1318">TS</a>]

00:22:01   my favorite short story authors for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1321">TS</a>]

00:22:02   science fiction and one of the most [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1322">TS</a>]

00:22:04   poignant short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1324">TS</a>]

00:22:05   oh and he's been one of the most [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1325">TS</a>]

00:22:06   poignant science fiction short stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1326">TS</a>]

00:22:07   of a red titled we were out of our minds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1327">TS</a>]

00:22:10   with joy and i love that story if it has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1330">TS</a>]

00:22:13   stuck with me ever since I read it back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1333">TS</a>]

00:22:14   in 1995 i will occasionally read it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1334">TS</a>]

00:22:17   still get choked up over it it is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1337">TS</a>]

00:22:20   first chapter of his 2005 novel counting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1340">TS</a>]

00:22:23   heads and you know I ran out paid for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1343">TS</a>]

00:22:25   the hardcover which i never do read the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1345">TS</a>]

00:22:27   book and ended up just bitterly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1347">TS</a>]

00:22:29   disappointed because he took well he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1349">TS</a>]

00:22:31   took the short story it was of course [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1351">TS</a>]

00:22:32   the first chapter of the book and don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1352">TS</a>]

00:22:35   get me wrong i think he did some very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1355">TS</a>]

00:22:36   creative things in the book and I admire [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1356">TS</a>]

00:22:39   that he had the courage to take his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1359">TS</a>]

00:22:40   characters and pushed in different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1360">TS</a>]

00:22:42   directions but it they weren't the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1362">TS</a>]

00:22:44   directions and the ideas that I had sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1364">TS</a>]

00:22:47   of taken away from the short story they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1367">TS</a>]

00:22:49   were his vision and as a result its I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1369">TS</a>]

00:22:51   sort of had a bad taste in my mouth [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1371">TS</a>]

00:22:52   because you know you finish the short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1372">TS</a>]

00:22:54   story and you've had this little shared [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1374">TS</a>]

00:22:55   experience and you've got your little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1375">TS</a>]

00:22:58   bubble of perception about how you've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1378">TS</a>]

00:22:59   digested the story and the author sure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1379">TS</a>]

00:23:01   has their bubble of perception but you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1381">TS</a>]

00:23:03   have this nifty Levin diagram that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1383">TS</a>]

00:23:05   overlaps whereas with a novel that every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1385">TS</a>]

00:23:08   of overlap becomes much much smaller [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1388">TS</a>]

00:23:10   relative to the size of the work so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1390">TS</a>]

00:23:12   there's a much more room for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1392">TS</a>]

00:23:13   disappointment on the readers part that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1393">TS</a>]

00:23:15   is interesting is I have I read that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1395">TS</a>]

00:23:17   book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1397">TS</a>]

00:23:18   oh maybe two years ago and i really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1398">TS</a>]

00:23:20   liked it and I had no idea it was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1400">TS</a>]

00:23:21   short story but he had written any kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1401">TS</a>]

00:23:24   of short story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1404">TS</a>]

00:23:24   oh yeah he's got a collection that came [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1404">TS</a>]

00:23:27   out like 2007 but we're out of our minds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1407">TS</a>]

00:23:29   of joy think it first appeared in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1409">TS</a>]

00:23:31   mirrored shades [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1411">TS</a>]

00:23:33   um I remember reading an idiot eat it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1413">TS</a>]

00:23:35   might have been in the year's best [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1415">TS</a>]

00:23:36   science fiction anthology but i do I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1416">TS</a>]

00:23:38   definitely remember reading I can't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1418">TS</a>]

00:23:39   remember which anthology i read in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1419">TS</a>]

00:23:40   first so Scott you had no idea that no I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1420">TS</a>]

00:23:43   had and I thought the the novel was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1423">TS</a>]

00:23:45   great so clearly i'm glad i didn't read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1425">TS</a>]

00:23:48   the short story because they looked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1428">TS</a>]

00:23:49   disappointed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1429">TS</a>]

00:23:50   no I like the novel on one level but it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1430">TS</a>]

00:23:52   was terribly disappointing and another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1432">TS</a>]

00:23:53   level that makes sense well because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1433">TS</a>]

00:23:55   because you know you're seeing you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1435">TS</a>]

00:23:57   aware of the things that are not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1437">TS</a>]

00:23:58   necessary for the what you felt was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1438">TS</a>]

00:24:00   main thrust of the you know the story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1440">TS</a>]

00:24:02   lifecycle software objects i mean i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1442">TS</a>]

00:24:04   think you can argue that one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1444">TS</a>]

00:24:07   reasons that it might be a little bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1447">TS</a>]

00:24:08   disappointing i'm not sure if everybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1448">TS</a>]

00:24:10   I mean Glen and I seem to think that way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1450">TS</a>]

00:24:11   is is that there's a little bit of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1451">TS</a>]

00:24:14   misdirection because i think because the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1454">TS</a>]

00:24:15   sci-fi trope that's on display there is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1455">TS</a>]

00:24:18   this whole idea of art [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1458">TS</a>]

00:24:19   official intelligences and you know do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1459">TS</a>]

00:24:21   that we've seen I mean they're Star Trek [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1461">TS</a>]

00:24:22   episodes about this right is it alive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1462">TS</a>]

00:24:24   and doesn't have rights and all of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1464">TS</a>]

00:24:26   things and in the end I sort of felt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1466">TS</a>]

00:24:29   like what I was actually reading and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1469">TS</a>]

00:24:31   actually like the story better if I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1471">TS</a>]

00:24:32   think of it this way is it's about it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1472">TS</a>]

00:24:35   literally about the abandonment of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1475">TS</a>]

00:24:37   software and not about people at all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1477">TS</a>]

00:24:39   it's about the fact that technology and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1479">TS</a>]

00:24:42   software you know even things that are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1482">TS</a>]

00:24:44   incredibly well loved and popular [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1484">TS</a>]

00:24:46   inevitably there is the there is the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1486">TS</a>]

00:24:49   of the life cycle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1489">TS</a>]

00:24:50   yeah where they where where nobody uses [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1490">TS</a>]

00:24:52   Microsoft Word 5.1 anymore right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1492">TS</a>]

00:24:55   everybody this is my problem with them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1495">TS</a>]

00:24:56   toys story to the one problem i had with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1496">TS</a>]

00:24:58   that movie [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1498">TS</a>]

00:24:59   this will sound like i'm talking like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1499">TS</a>]

00:25:00   just woke up in the middle of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1500">TS</a>]

00:25:01   conversation LOL when looking back was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1501">TS</a>]

00:25:04   no was the what's the connection is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1504">TS</a>]

00:25:05   jesse idea yet you have a bit where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1505">TS</a>]

00:25:08   she's thrown into a box and abandoned on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1508">TS</a>]

00:25:10   the side of the road was this horrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1510">TS</a>]

00:25:13   like I watched and I was filled with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1513">TS</a>]

00:25:14   this this horrible void filled universal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1514">TS</a>]

00:25:18   dread that was because it was like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1518">TS</a>]

00:25:20   know there's already this huge conceit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1520">TS</a>]

00:25:22   that the toys are only sort of alive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1522">TS</a>]

00:25:24   when they're around kids or when they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1524">TS</a>]

00:25:25   not around kids but they sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1525">TS</a>]

00:25:26   experience their lives only through this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1526">TS</a>]

00:25:29   mediation of children and then it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1529">TS</a>]

00:25:30   goodbyes pulling out the window you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1530">TS</a>]

00:25:33   not important anymore and it sounds like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1533">TS</a>]

00:25:34   toy story 3 I haven't seen it yet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1534">TS</a>]

00:25:36   starts with a little bit of that same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1536">TS</a>]

00:25:37   fear oh it actually goes through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1537">TS</a>]

00:25:39   throughout honestly fifties and there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1539">TS</a>]

00:25:41   something about that like where where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1541">TS</a>]

00:25:43   you're the kind of empathy you have with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1543">TS</a>]

00:25:45   I mean I think life cycle of software [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1545">TS</a>]

00:25:47   objects i don't mean to compare tonight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1547">TS</a>]

00:25:49   the rocks breaks it's not horrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1549">TS</a>]

00:25:50   anymore like it has that sense of being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1550">TS</a>]

00:25:52   stretched way too thin to transparency [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1552">TS</a>]

00:25:55   but he has that idea of like there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1555">TS</a>]

00:25:57   this incredible loyalty between the that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1557">TS</a>]

00:26:00   designers and Donna and and the thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1560">TS</a>]

00:26:03   that she makes because the thing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1563">TS</a>]

00:26:05   she makes becomes real as real as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1565">TS</a>]

00:26:08   anything else so i think that i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1568">TS</a>]

00:26:10   you're right that it actually is trying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1570">TS</a>]

00:26:12   to represent that feeling of a banding [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1572">TS</a>]

00:26:14   stuff that still may be used for what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1574">TS</a>]

00:26:17   you think it's things like you know hey [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1577">TS</a>]

00:26:19   here's this ipod that I i used in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1579">TS</a>]

00:26:21   delivery room when we had you know when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1581">TS</a>]

00:26:23   we had one of our kids you know and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1583">TS</a>]

00:26:25   there's this level of sentimentality [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1585">TS</a>]

00:26:27   over or it's like oh yeah i used to use [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1587">TS</a>]

00:26:29   that computer i use that program you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1589">TS</a>]

00:26:31   know I think it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1591">TS</a>]

00:26:32   technology a2 and not just sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1592">TS</a>]

00:26:35   inanimate objects like like a stuffed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1595">TS</a>]

00:26:38   animals you know you have this sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1598">TS</a>]

00:26:40   the this life cycle and and by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1600">TS</a>]

00:26:42   personifying and these artificial [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1602">TS</a>]

00:26:44   intelligence creations that makes an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1604">TS</a>]

00:26:46   interesting sight again it with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1606">TS</a>]

00:26:48   interesting sci-fi wrapper around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1608">TS</a>]

00:26:49   something else is trying to say but in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1609">TS</a>]

00:26:51   the end I thought it was actually like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1611">TS</a>]

00:26:53   me the the most this is another one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1613">TS</a>]

00:26:55   those where I'm liking it more now that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1615">TS</a>]

00:26:57   i think about it then when I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1617">TS</a>]

00:26:58   actually reading it it's it's it's in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1618">TS</a>]

00:27:00   some ways the most artful way to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1620">TS</a>]

00:27:01   describe this sort of natural process [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1621">TS</a>]

00:27:03   that things things move on and although [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1623">TS</a>]

00:27:07   they seem important eventually we we all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1627">TS</a>]

00:27:09   just abandoned them and it's not that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1629">TS</a>]

00:27:11   they'd it's not the story of everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1631">TS</a>]

00:27:13   dies because that's different this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1633">TS</a>]

00:27:15   eventually everything that we make is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1635">TS</a>]

00:27:18   abandoned and and you may get you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1638">TS</a>]

00:27:21   you may be on the end of the bell curve [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1641">TS</a>]

00:27:23   with it like those people who have the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1643">TS</a>]

00:27:25   the Apple to convention every year and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1645">TS</a>]

00:27:28   the human convention every year but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1648">TS</a>]

00:27:30   HyperCard forever yeah but in the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1650">TS</a>]

00:27:32   but you know just like the ai's in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1652">TS</a>]

00:27:35   life cycle of software objects and even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1655">TS</a>]

00:27:37   the greatest supporters of of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1657">TS</a>]

00:27:39   technology and as it becomes outmoded [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1659">TS</a>]

00:27:41   and it's not compatible with new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1661">TS</a>]

00:27:43   hardware and all these things that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1663">TS</a>]

00:27:45   computer users no happen you know it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1665">TS</a>]

00:27:47   they just you know they fade away and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1667">TS</a>]

00:27:49   and in this case it's poignant because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1669">TS</a>]

00:27:51   they're sort of these sentient creatures [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1671">TS</a>]

00:27:53   who basically get put in a box and it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1673">TS</a>]

00:27:56   not like they died as much as they just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1676">TS</a>]

00:27:58   ceased to move forward and that's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1678">TS</a>]

00:28:00   end this was the most negatively [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1680">TS</a>]

00:28:03   sentimental story I thought and that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1683">TS</a>]

00:28:05   saying a lot given that the collection [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1685">TS</a>]

00:28:06   also features of a parent group grieving [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1686">TS</a>]

00:28:09   the death of a child [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1689">TS</a>]

00:28:10   uh-huh regretting the idea i thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1690">TS</a>]

00:28:13   there was something I thought that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1693">TS</a>]

00:28:14   thought there was some elements of pesos [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1694">TS</a>]

00:28:16   in that were perhaps not necessary and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1696">TS</a>]

00:28:19   understand they may be there to amplify [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1699">TS</a>]

00:28:21   his point because changa said well I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1701">TS</a>]

00:28:22   wrote this book this story to point out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1702">TS</a>]

00:28:24   i don't think a is going to work until [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1704">TS</a>]

00:28:27   people value that value it enough to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1707">TS</a>]

00:28:29   pour in a lot of time and effort and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1709">TS</a>]

00:28:31   love into what they're doing man and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1711">TS</a>]

00:28:35   think it's an admirable point but when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1715">TS</a>]

00:28:37   you make the delay is incredibly cute [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1717">TS</a>]

00:28:40   and you give them a pigeon grammar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1720">TS</a>]

00:28:42   because all they're just learning how to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1722">TS</a>]

00:28:43   speak and you know it looks like wacky [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1723">TS</a>]

00:28:46   lovable cartoon characters but yeah and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1726">TS</a>]

00:28:48   at the end and they have an adorable and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1728">TS</a>]

00:28:50   they have adorable little avatar that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1730">TS</a>]

00:28:52   are specially printed before them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1732">TS</a>]

00:28:53   another day another would've worn by the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1733">TS</a>]

00:28:56   way which is not great I think he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1736">TS</a>]

00:28:58   really putting a lot of that they're put [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1738">TS</a>]

00:28:59   in porn event yeah right resolution [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1739">TS</a>]

00:29:02   enough to express I want to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1742">TS</a>]

00:29:03   independent but I'm still really cute [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1743">TS</a>]

00:29:05   and really dependent so and there's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1745">TS</a>]

00:29:07   a lot of buttons being pushed there at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1747">TS</a>]

00:29:09   that I thought way not to mention the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1749">TS</a>]

00:29:11   romantic subplot what you felt was just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1751">TS</a>]

00:29:14   you know again we service all very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1754">TS</a>]

00:29:16   you're not content on consummated or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1756">TS</a>]

00:29:19   even fulfilling and all but you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1759">TS</a>]

00:29:21   it's the old like why do people like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1761">TS</a>]

00:29:23   ladybugs and hate cockroaches because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1763">TS</a>]

00:29:26   okay yeah or disrepute well so cute [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1766">TS</a>]

00:29:29   cockroaches what's wrong with you well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1769">TS</a>]

00:29:30   this story also points out what I like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1770">TS</a>]

00:29:32   to think of as the animal problem in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1772">TS</a>]

00:29:34   science fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1774">TS</a>]

00:29:35   um which is that a lot of authors tend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1775">TS</a>]

00:29:38   to assume know in the future things will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1778">TS</a>]

00:29:40   be extinct in the future animals will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1780">TS</a>]

00:29:42   not be up something people even think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1782">TS</a>]

00:29:45   about anymore i can remember the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1785">TS</a>]

00:29:47   time I read count 0 by william gibson [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1787">TS</a>]

00:29:49   there was a throwaway line about horses [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1789">TS</a>]

00:29:50   going extinct that just threw me for a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1790">TS</a>]

00:29:52   loop because I I was like can you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1792">TS</a>]

00:29:54   imagine a world without horses and yet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1794">TS</a>]

00:29:56   that was supposed to do in the future [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1796">TS</a>]

00:29:57   courses they're extinct and in you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1797">TS</a>]

00:30:01   this chanc story on ax is a zoo keeper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1801">TS</a>]

00:30:03   who is obviously rendered obsolete [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1803">TS</a>]

00:30:05   either because the user closing down or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1805">TS</a>]

00:30:08   animals r dot have died or whatever and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1808">TS</a>]

00:30:11   I just keep wondering why there can't be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1811">TS</a>]

00:30:14   good science fiction where there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1814">TS</a>]

00:30:18   entities other than humans and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1818">TS</a>]

00:30:20   artificial intelligence [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1820">TS</a>]

00:30:22   why do we have to kill other species [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1822">TS</a>]

00:30:23   Williams heptapods will occasionally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1823">TS</a>]

00:30:27   you'll get to occasional get dolphins [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1827">TS</a>]

00:30:29   for example like how it turns out the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1829">TS</a>]

00:30:30   aliens have been talking with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1830">TS</a>]

00:30:31   dolphins the whole time left [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1831">TS</a>]

00:30:33   David Bradley is David wrote a whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1833">TS</a>]

00:30:35   series of we should all about that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1835">TS</a>]

00:30:37   sometimes I love those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1837">TS</a>]

00:30:38   I did too in high school my god yes in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1838">TS</a>]

00:30:41   high school now I feel really amateur [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1841">TS</a>]

00:30:42   right yeah i just discovered them and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1842">TS</a>]

00:30:46   i love i love the alien love scenes in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1846">TS</a>]

00:30:49   the seventeen-year-old girl reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1849">TS</a>]

00:30:50   about lifting dolphins all my god [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1850">TS</a>]

00:30:53   gorillas don't forget the ground was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1853">TS</a>]

00:30:54   it's like all right into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1854">TS</a>]

00:30:55   dragons are gonna rip we're all going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1855">TS</a>]

00:30:57   regress and talk about their future [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1857">TS</a>]

00:30:59   popular because clearly i think mr. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1859">TS</a>]

00:31:01   McNulty is not be consultants favorite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1861">TS</a>]

00:31:03   story at however i was going to ask [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1863">TS</a>]

00:31:05   I'm sorry what ah that is true so i have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1865">TS</a>]

00:31:08   to that I like what's expected of us [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1868">TS</a>]

00:31:12   which is probably the shortest shorts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1872">TS</a>]

00:31:14   underneath those in the was it in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1874">TS</a>]

00:31:15   collection [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1875">TS</a>]

00:31:17   no it's only extended part of its not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1877">TS</a>]

00:31:21   the so the one that is a good story it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1881">TS</a>]

00:31:23   basically you know it's about they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1883">TS</a>]

00:31:26   create this to someone crazy device that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1886">TS</a>]

00:31:28   all you do is push a button and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1888">TS</a>]

00:31:30   lights up a light but the twist is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1890">TS</a>]

00:31:32   the light lights up right before you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1892">TS</a>]

00:31:34   push the button and that leads people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1894">TS</a>]

00:31:36   down the road they realized that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1896">TS</a>]

00:31:39   don't have free will and beautiful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1899">TS</a>]

00:31:41   society crumbles and people kill each [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1901">TS</a>]

00:31:43   other and it's wonderful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1903">TS</a>]

00:31:44   they fall into catatonia exactly and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1904">TS</a>]

00:31:47   something like a page and a half long so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1907">TS</a>]

00:31:49   they're say there's a a story in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1909">TS</a>]

00:31:53   year's best scientific every year I by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1913">TS</a>]

00:31:54   the gardener on a precipice because this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1914">TS</a>]

00:31:57   is it desired is I don't know but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1917">TS</a>]

00:32:00   one of those it's could be friendship [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1920">TS</a>]

00:32:01   could be americanized but the year's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1921">TS</a>]

00:32:04   best science fiction anthology which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1924">TS</a>]

00:32:05   great read it's worth you know I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1925">TS</a>]

00:32:07   highly recommend it sits at you know you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1927">TS</a>]

00:32:09   get 30 short stories that you can take a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1929">TS</a>]

00:32:12   whole year to read them if you want and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1932">TS</a>]

00:32:13   just partial amount and there's some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1933">TS</a>]

00:32:15   really mind-blowing stuff in there but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1935">TS</a>]

00:32:16   there's a story in there and i can't i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1936">TS</a>]

00:32:19   can't think of the name of it now but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1939">TS</a>]

00:32:20   basically it's premise is very similar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1940">TS</a>]

00:32:23   which is the that uh that there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1943">TS</a>]

00:32:27   studies that suggest which is true that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1947">TS</a>]

00:32:29   when they monitor somebody and they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1949">TS</a>]

00:32:32   going to make a decision like to reach [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1952">TS</a>]

00:32:33   out and press a button that they there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1953">TS</a>]

00:32:39   the moment where they decided to press [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1959">TS</a>]

00:32:41   the button and reach out and press it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1961">TS</a>]

00:32:43   they're already moving to press it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1963">TS</a>]

00:32:46   the idea is that that our consciousness [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1966">TS</a>]

00:32:49   is not actually the decider of what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1969">TS</a>]

00:32:52   happens but more like the record keeper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1972">TS</a>]

00:32:55   of the decision so and what they what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1975">TS</a>]

00:32:58   they say in the short story is that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1978">TS</a>]

00:33:00   that we're like the the Queen in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1980">TS</a>]

00:33:02   castle and all of her servants come and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1982">TS</a>]

00:33:05   report to her about what's going on but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1985">TS</a>]

00:33:09   I you know but the servants do all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1989">TS</a>]

00:33:11   work so we you know we're not in charge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1991">TS</a>]

00:33:14   were just the the the like the minutes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1994">TS</a>]

00:33:17   of the meeting executive function and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/1997">TS</a>]

00:33:20   and in short story what happens is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2000">TS</a>]

00:33:22   there's this drug that makes you forget [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2002">TS</a>]

00:33:24   that gets you high that kids take and if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2004">TS</a>]

00:33:27   you overdose on it it basically wipes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2007">TS</a>]

00:33:29   out your you're the queen of the castle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2009">TS</a>]

00:33:32   and so then a new person comes in and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2012">TS</a>]

00:33:35   they have all your memory all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2015">TS</a>]

00:33:36   memories of this other character but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2016">TS</a>]

00:33:39   it's not the same person but very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2019">TS</a>]

00:33:42   similar in in like 15 times the length [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2022">TS</a>]

00:33:44   Scott of the story that same idea that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2024">TS</a>]

00:33:47   that you know is it free will is it not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2027">TS</a>]

00:33:50   are you really the person who's making [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2030">TS</a>]

00:33:52   any of the decisions or you or you just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2032">TS</a>]

00:33:54   the the the receipt right and I my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2034">TS</a>]

00:33:57   favorite part of the the story is at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2037">TS</a>]

00:33:59   end so basically it's a letter basically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2039">TS</a>]

00:34:02   that sent from the future to the past [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2042">TS</a>]

00:34:03   right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2043">TS</a>]

00:34:04   warning people about this and at the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2044">TS</a>]

00:34:06   you know he said you don't have free [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2046">TS</a>]

00:34:08   will so why am I telling you this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2048">TS</a>]

00:34:10   and the last line is something like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2050">TS</a>]

00:34:12   because I have to because he has no free [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2052">TS</a>]

00:34:14   will so he has to send this letter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2054">TS</a>]

00:34:15   because it is predestined and there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2055">TS</a>]

00:34:18   that he can't do anything about well you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2058">TS</a>]

00:34:19   know what this reminds me of is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2059">TS</a>]

00:34:20   it's an isaac asimov story forgotten [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2060">TS</a>]

00:34:22   it's a classic story where this guy is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2062">TS</a>]

00:34:25   history professor studying like he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2065">TS</a>]

00:34:28   trying he spent his whole career trying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2068">TS</a>]

00:34:29   to dispute the fact that Carthaginians [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2069">TS</a>]

00:34:32   eight babies or something when they went [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2072">TS</a>]

00:34:34   to war or something like that and he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2074">TS</a>]

00:34:36   finds there's some kind of institute [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2076">TS</a>]

00:34:38   that's that uses from like time viewing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2078">TS</a>]

00:34:40   and they can look at events in the far [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2080">TS</a>]

00:34:42   past and but they keep blaming it on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2082">TS</a>]

00:34:45   time for him that his pursuits 22 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2085">TS</a>]

00:34:47   trivial and so he meets a physicist at a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2087">TS</a>]

00:34:51   party this young guy and guys like well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2091">TS</a>]

00:34:53   you know if someone can do it this is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2093">TS</a>]

00:34:55   this video is the argument the argument [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2095">TS</a>]

00:34:57   that if you know someone can do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2097">TS</a>]

00:34:59   something if you don't know how then you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2099">TS</a>]

00:35:01   go and figure out how to do it because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2101">TS</a>]

00:35:02   someone else has and which has been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2102">TS</a>]

00:35:05   repeated throughout the history of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2105">TS</a>]

00:35:06   software hardware development sometimes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2106">TS</a>]

00:35:08   for someone thinks someone else is done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2108">TS</a>]

00:35:10   and they haven't they make the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2110">TS</a>]

00:35:11   breakthrough so in this story this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2111">TS</a>]

00:35:13   business is like well I should be that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2113">TS</a>]

00:35:14   hard because they've already done it so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2114">TS</a>]

00:35:15   they figure out he figures out a way he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2115">TS</a>]

00:35:17   and the scientists [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2117">TS</a>]

00:35:18   the researcher managed to create a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2118">TS</a>]

00:35:21   machine less than view but the trick is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2121">TS</a>]

00:35:22   it doesn't feel the distant past he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2122">TS</a>]

00:35:24   back like one-second anywhere in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2124">TS</a>]

00:35:27   world so they get burst in at the last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2127">TS</a>]

00:35:30   minute I like the time police you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2130">TS</a>]

00:35:31   time place the time you are police were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2131">TS</a>]

00:35:32   like oh my god you know what you've done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2132">TS</a>]

00:35:34   you spread this knowledge now we all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2134">TS</a>]

00:35:36   live in a glass bubble always no one's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2136">TS</a>]

00:35:38   actions will ever be unnoticed again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2138">TS</a>]

00:35:40   because everyone can have one of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2140">TS</a>]

00:35:41   things and then you know the twist was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2141">TS</a>]

00:35:43   they only talked about things happening [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2143">TS</a>]

00:35:45   in the far past the people wouldn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2145">TS</a>]

00:35:46   think about turning the time you're back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2146">TS</a>]

00:35:48   one second you've destroyed us all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2148">TS</a>]

00:35:50   oh so what's your other pics my other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2150">TS</a>]

00:35:55   favorite as hell is the absence of God [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2155">TS</a>]

00:35:58   really want you can get through that 1i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2158">TS</a>]

00:36:02   I like a I was raised Roman Catholic so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2162">TS</a>]

00:36:05   I like things with religion goes hardly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2165">TS</a>]

00:36:08   haha that's why we're gonna get through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2168">TS</a>]

00:36:10   another former Catholic somebody got it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2170">TS</a>]

00:36:14   that's the one where the guy's wife is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2174">TS</a>]

00:36:16   like killed me by the heavenly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2176">TS</a>]

00:36:18   visitation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2178">TS</a>]

00:36:18   yeah like an angel appears and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2178">TS</a>]

00:36:21   there's collateral damage she gets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2181">TS</a>]

00:36:24   killed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2184">TS</a>]

00:36:24   yeah so finally in the in the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2184">TS</a>]

00:36:26   setting of the story angels appear on a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2186">TS</a>]

00:36:29   semi-regular basis and they you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2189">TS</a>]

00:36:32   bring tidings from God and they also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2192">TS</a>]

00:36:35   happen to cause earthquakes and all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2195">TS</a>]

00:36:38   kinds of things and people died and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2198">TS</a>]

00:36:40   think their act of god they're not sure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2200">TS</a>]

00:36:42   Bob exactly which is I think of anybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2202">TS</a>]

00:36:45   throw a part of the whole story and at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2205">TS</a>]

00:36:49   the end and so people died and then i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2209">TS</a>]

00:36:51   guess during when you want an angel is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2211">TS</a>]

00:36:53   around and someone dies you can see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2213">TS</a>]

00:36:55   where their soul goes so they know if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2215">TS</a>]

00:36:58   someone is going to heaven or hell and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2218">TS</a>]

00:37:01   it's very depressing story if you get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2221">TS</a>]

00:37:03   all the way to the end but yeah I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2223">TS</a>]

00:37:06   enjoyed it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2226">TS</a>]

00:37:07   we'll see that's anxious because you are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2227">TS</a>]

00:37:10   black heart because they have like an 18 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2230">TS</a>]

00:37:12   and there's a character who was born so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2232">TS</a>]

00:37:16   it there's another part of the story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2236">TS</a>]

00:37:17   where people go to where they think an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2237">TS</a>]

00:37:20   angel is going to appear because when an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2240">TS</a>]

00:37:22   angel appears the light of God proceeds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2242">TS</a>]

00:37:24   it and when light of God hits people it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2244">TS</a>]

00:37:27   can cure them of disease or it can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2247">TS</a>]

00:37:30   unfortunately change their DNA [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2250">TS</a>]

00:37:32   so that bad things happen and there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2252">TS</a>]

00:37:35   character in the story who was born [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2255">TS</a>]

00:37:37   without legs and so she refuses to go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2257">TS</a>]

00:37:40   after an angel because she wants to she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2260">TS</a>]

00:37:44   wants people to accept their limitations [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2264">TS</a>]

00:37:45   and be happy with who they are living [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2265">TS</a>]

00:37:47   their life trying to come across a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2267">TS</a>]

00:37:49   random event that will make their life [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2269">TS</a>]

00:37:51   better and then through a series of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2271">TS</a>]

00:37:53   events she happens to be in an area [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2273">TS</a>]

00:37:56   where an angel appears and she gets her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2276">TS</a>]

00:37:58   legs back and everyone's like oh now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2278">TS</a>]

00:38:00   you're you know you're it kind of ruins [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2280">TS</a>]

00:38:03   your whole character and then later on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2283">TS</a>]

00:38:06   she's an angel again and her she becomes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2286">TS</a>]

00:38:09   blind but not only blind she becomes a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2289">TS</a>]

00:38:11   creature who never had site so i thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2291">TS</a>]

00:38:14   that she lost her eyes but she never was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2294">TS</a>]

00:38:17   she never had site uh-huh that's what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2297">TS</a>]

00:38:19   that's a really weird story is right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2299">TS</a>]

00:38:21   here stupid but I like weird stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2301">TS</a>]

00:38:24   good for you it's nothing like that I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2304">TS</a>]

00:38:26   he reminds us of the short stories that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2306">TS</a>]

00:38:29   he's written in this collection we were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2309">TS</a>]

00:38:30   talking earlier about other kinds of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2310">TS</a>]

00:38:32   short story collections and things like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2312">TS</a>]

00:38:33   that again and again azimoff reference i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2313">TS</a>]

00:38:36   think i read too much as them off of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2316">TS</a>]

00:38:37   child and my I was tainted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2317">TS</a>]

00:38:39   I don't anything everything this is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2319">TS</a>]

00:38:43   future is all about psychohistory if not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2323">TS</a>]

00:38:46   go history think of zero at wawa serious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2326">TS</a>]

00:38:49   about Susan Calvin for president but the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2329">TS</a>]

00:38:54   thing I was thinking about was his he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2334">TS</a>]

00:38:55   had a short short collections but he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2335">TS</a>]

00:38:58   cannot which were super short stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2338">TS</a>]

00:38:59   like a page and sometimes less and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2339">TS</a>]

00:39:02   love their sort of a regressive tendency [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2342">TS</a>]

00:39:04   is that you know there's sort of this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2344">TS</a>]

00:39:06   the reason short stories involve was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2346">TS</a>]

00:39:07   that there were magazines too pretty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2347">TS</a>]

00:39:09   short stories that they weren't there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2349">TS</a>]

00:39:10   were the one amazing and all these great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2350">TS</a>]

00:39:12   science fiction magazines for thriving [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2352">TS</a>]

00:39:15   in the thirties through the early [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2355">TS</a>]

00:39:16   sixties or seventies that the they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2356">TS</a>]

00:39:20   place people to write a certain length [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2360">TS</a>]

00:39:21   that so much they could afford to pay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2361">TS</a>]

00:39:23   and people can better write that link [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2363">TS</a>]

00:39:24   that ring novel length and you know that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2364">TS</a>]

00:39:26   being able to sell massive numbers of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2366">TS</a>]

00:39:28   science fiction novels this great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2368">TS</a>]

00:39:29   tradition of short stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2369">TS</a>]

00:39:31   and in science fiction but i love the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2371">TS</a>]

00:39:33   fact that like people also write these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2373">TS</a>]

00:39:35   crazy short things that are like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2375">TS</a>]

00:39:37   know and then the regressive parties [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2377">TS</a>]

00:39:38   like between twitter and i think was it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2378">TS</a>]

00:39:40   wired magazine had a five-word fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2380">TS</a>]

00:39:42   contest that which was great and it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2382">TS</a>]

00:39:44   one of them was about the future i have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2384">TS</a>]

00:39:48   to go look it up with something about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2388">TS</a>]

00:39:49   like time of us even five words told the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2389">TS</a>]

00:39:52   whole story that time wraps around and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2392">TS</a>]

00:39:55   it was like the best of the best one is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2395">TS</a>]

00:39:57   is a four for sale [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2397">TS</a>]

00:40:00   baby shoes unused that doesn't take up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2400">TS</a>]

00:40:03   on the anyway which is great which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2403">TS</a>]

00:40:05   for sale baby she's never worn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2405">TS</a>]

00:40:07   yeah that's it that's it so that's all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2407">TS</a>]

00:40:09   you need right six words explore 548 was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2409">TS</a>]

00:40:13   a man of few words to yeah but I like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2413">TS</a>]

00:40:15   that thing that you can have many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2415">TS</a>]

00:40:17   honorary higher because we like short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2417">TS</a>]

00:40:20   stories required short stories require a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2420">TS</a>]

00:40:23   lot of inference like a novel you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2423">TS</a>]

00:40:25   stretch out and reckon you can learn the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2425">TS</a>]

00:40:27   landscape and the language and have your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2427">TS</a>]

00:40:29   brain rewired but a short story you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2429">TS</a>]

00:40:31   to have sort of one central concept you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2431">TS</a>]

00:40:33   have to have to concede or some concedes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2433">TS</a>]

00:40:35   you have to tell it and we fill in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2435">TS</a>]

00:40:37   rest you know that's I think what least [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2437">TS</a>]

00:40:39   it was talking about like when you take [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2439">TS</a>]

00:40:40   the short story two novel link all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2440">TS</a>]

00:40:41   stuff we filled in becomes explicit and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2441">TS</a>]

00:40:44   you know becomes over and becomes less [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2444">TS</a>]

00:40:45   interesting so I love these super short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2445">TS</a>]

00:40:47   swear it's like in like 200 words have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2447">TS</a>]

00:40:50   told this entire universe see when i was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2450">TS</a>]

00:40:52   in high school and college all I wrote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2452">TS</a>]

00:40:54   short stories and when i first tried to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2454">TS</a>]

00:40:56   write a novel it was fascinating because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2456">TS</a>]

00:40:58   I I got to see it from the other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2458">TS</a>]

00:40:59   direction when the short story you do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2459">TS</a>]

00:41:01   want to be concentrated here's my idea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2461">TS</a>]

00:41:03   I need to get from point A to point B [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2463">TS</a>]

00:41:04   i'm going to do all the pieces that will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2464">TS</a>]

00:41:06   get me from point A to point B and i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2466">TS</a>]

00:41:07   done where is it a novel it's like well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2467">TS</a>]

00:41:09   okay I sort of know where I'm going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2469">TS</a>]

00:41:11   there a whole lot of characters i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2471">TS</a>]

00:41:13   going to detail all the all the steps [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2473">TS</a>]

00:41:15   and I was surprised how easily i went [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2475">TS</a>]

00:41:18   the longest story i had ever written was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2478">TS</a>]

00:41:20   about 10,000 words or nine thousand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2480">TS</a>]

00:41:22   words and you know and in 30 days i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2482">TS</a>]

00:41:24   wrote 50,000 and the the novel ended up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2484">TS</a>]

00:41:27   being a hundred and fifty thousand words [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2487">TS</a>]

00:41:28   so you know but I think that's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2488">TS</a>]

00:41:31   difference is if you go into it knowing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2491">TS</a>]

00:41:32   you're writing that length your approach [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2492">TS</a>]

00:41:34   is very different and that's maybe where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2494">TS</a>]

00:41:37   the expansions fall apart is that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2497">TS</a>]

00:41:39   know you're taking a short story premise [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2499">TS</a>]

00:41:42   and just kind of inflating it instead of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2502">TS</a>]

00:41:44   saying no no this isn't that this is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2504">TS</a>]

00:41:46   whole different kind of thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2506">TS</a>]

00:41:48   uh-huh + 10 + 140 quatloos on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2508">TS</a>]

00:41:56   newcomer but he has the ideas for me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2516">TS</a>]

00:42:12   really I mean he is you know he's he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2532">TS</a>]

00:42:14   clearly when you talk to other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2534">TS</a>]

00:42:15   science-fiction writers and readers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2535">TS</a>]

00:42:17   that's like Chang is the science fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2537">TS</a>]

00:42:20   writers writer like he's the guy they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2540">TS</a>]

00:42:23   all like oh its head sank because he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2543">TS</a>]

00:42:25   writes so beautifully because he has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2545">TS</a>]

00:42:27   every story writes is a different story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2547">TS</a>]

00:42:29   even if there's some of the concept we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2549">TS</a>]

00:42:30   talking common he doesn't seem to reuse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2550">TS</a>]

00:42:32   central conceit even if there's any of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2552">TS</a>]

00:42:34   the themes are big but the conceits are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2554">TS</a>]

00:42:36   different so they're always like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2556">TS</a>]

00:42:38   read about people but it's like all back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2558">TS</a>]

00:42:39   I like that kind of found an interview [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2559">TS</a>]

00:42:41   with him where he said he was asked if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2561">TS</a>]

00:42:44   he has a novel in many said i don't know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2564">TS</a>]

00:42:46   if i get an idea for one sure but I I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2566">TS</a>]

00:42:48   don't ever expect to make a living being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2568">TS</a>]

00:42:50   a writer so I'm happy to just sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2570">TS</a>]

00:42:52   crank out a short story every now and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2572">TS</a>]

00:42:53   then which is interesting he doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2573">TS</a>]

00:42:55   have any aspirations even though he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2575">TS</a>]

00:42:57   this you know really praised writer he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2577">TS</a>]

00:42:59   like yeah you know I'm not gonna I'm not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2579">TS</a>]

00:43:01   gonna do that may just be that he knows [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2581">TS</a>]

00:43:03   that the volume that is required is not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2583">TS</a>]

00:43:05   something he can do i don't know well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2585">TS</a>]

00:43:07   some of some of us are Stephen King and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2587">TS</a>]

00:43:09   some of us are touch and sometimes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2589">TS</a>]

00:43:10   wonder if the if there is an inherent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2590">TS</a>]

00:43:14   tension between telling a good story and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2594">TS</a>]

00:43:16   exploring the limits of an idea within a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2596">TS</a>]

00:43:18   storytelling context because for example [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2598">TS</a>]

00:43:22   i will argue with Harold Bloom even that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2602">TS</a>]

00:43:25   Stephen King is a fantastic story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2605">TS</a>]

00:43:27   terrible a short story on both in short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2607">TS</a>]

00:43:30   story and even novelistic form and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2610">TS</a>]

00:43:33   think one of the reasons he is because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2613">TS</a>]

00:43:34   he doesn't necessarily necessarily [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2614">TS</a>]

00:43:36   tackle big ideas he just strings [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2616">TS</a>]

00:43:39   together event event event event event [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2619">TS</a>]

00:43:41   so it in such a way where you want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2621">TS</a>]

00:43:43   find out what happens next [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2623">TS</a>]

00:43:45   whereas when you're exploring an idea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2625">TS</a>]

00:43:48   it's a different well and here we go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2628">TS</a>]

00:43:51   back to the beginning of the podcast is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2631">TS</a>]

00:43:52   a different framework of perception [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2632">TS</a>]

00:43:53   because what you're trying to do is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2633">TS</a>]

00:43:54   you're begging [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2634">TS</a>]

00:43:55   up against the sides of the idea and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2635">TS</a>]

00:43:57   what about this oh there that happens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2637">TS</a>]

00:43:59   but what about that oh that's how that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2639">TS</a>]

00:44:00   carries out and you're taking the idea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2640">TS</a>]

00:44:02   to its logical conclusion but that's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2642">TS</a>]

00:44:04   necessarily the same thing as crafting a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2644">TS</a>]

00:44:06   linear narrative that is riveting that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2646">TS</a>]

00:44:09   makes people want to find out what the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2649">TS</a>]

00:44:10   next step is Harold Bloom up by the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2650">TS</a>]

00:44:12   also failed to show up for the podcast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2652">TS</a>]

00:44:14   tonight so well he forgot his microphone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2654">TS</a>]

00:44:16   just under sail [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2656">TS</a>]

00:44:18   I think he also failed Jim Scott were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2658">TS</a>]

00:44:21   you gonna say something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2661">TS</a>]

00:44:23   uh yes I was speaking you know thinking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2663">TS</a>]

00:44:26   about novels as commerce i can imagine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2666">TS</a>]

00:44:29   you know there's a lot of work to make a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2669">TS</a>]

00:44:31   threat level after I've ever written but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2671">TS</a>]

00:44:33   i can't imagine it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2673">TS</a>]

00:44:34   yeah easy but I didn't do it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2674">TS</a>]

00:44:37   attention as we you know establish takes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2677">TS</a>]

00:44:42   a long time to write so he would have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2682">TS</a>]

00:44:43   put a lot of effort into it and frankly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2683">TS</a>]

00:44:45   i'm sure it would be a lovely novel but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2685">TS</a>]

00:44:47   I don't think it would sell all that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2687">TS</a>]

00:44:49   well just because it's not i don't you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2689">TS</a>]

00:44:52   get the sense he's almost like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2692">TS</a>]

00:44:53   musician's musician right exactly what I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2693">TS</a>]

00:44:56   don't think this is not gonna be a harry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2696">TS</a>]

00:44:57   potter right so why don't we go here we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2697">TS</a>]

00:45:00   go again once again you have the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2700">TS</a>]

00:45:01   exploration of ideas versus the ability [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2701">TS</a>]

00:45:03   to craft a compelling narrative right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2703">TS</a>]

00:45:05   it's drama that's what i'm going to wear [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2705">TS</a>]

00:45:07   section of it fun [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2707">TS</a>]

00:45:09   this actually reminds me a bit of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2709">TS</a>]

00:45:10   assume all of you already seen the Funny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2710">TS</a>]

00:45:12   or Die Harry Met Sally sequel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2712">TS</a>]

00:45:14   yes yes yes so they're actually reminds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2714">TS</a>]

00:45:18   me like the ted chang around to be a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2718">TS</a>]

00:45:20   little that it's like you know he could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2720">TS</a>]

00:45:22   take these incredibly like beautiful sad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2722">TS</a>]

00:45:25   subtle ideas and turn into a novel and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2725">TS</a>]

00:45:27   then if you just have that one idea like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2727">TS</a>]

00:45:28   the Empire's he could make a million [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2728">TS</a>]

00:45:30   like all I guess that won't work well it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2730">TS</a>]

00:45:32   so i want to mention my to ted chang [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2732">TS</a>]

00:45:36   stories because we don't ask you I i I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2736">TS</a>]

00:45:39   just sitting right over here Jason that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2739">TS</a>]

00:45:41   social your favorite what are your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2741">TS</a>]

00:45:44   favorite oh it doesn't matter now you've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2744">TS</a>]

00:45:46   destroyed everything you ruin every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2746">TS</a>]

00:45:48   muscle is not a more adult i'm going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2748">TS</a>]

00:45:50   go in my room probably pick bad ones [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2750">TS</a>]

00:45:51   anyway [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2751">TS</a>]

00:45:52   exactly actually what's funny as i am [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2752">TS</a>]

00:45:55   going to mention two stories that that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2755">TS</a>]

00:45:58   none of you mentioned I was waiting for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2758">TS</a>]

00:46:01   the inevitable somebody to mention these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2761">TS</a>]

00:46:03   stories and nobody did one of them i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2763">TS</a>]

00:46:04   mentioned earlier which is the merchant [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2764">TS</a>]

00:46:06   and the alchemist gate which I really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2766">TS</a>]

00:46:07   like it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2767">TS</a>]

00:46:09   it's about a guy who goes into a shop in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2769">TS</a>]

00:46:11   Baghdad and a man is there who has this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2771">TS</a>]

00:46:14   arch and the arch will take you 20 years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2774">TS</a>]

00:46:18   into the future and and theoretically it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2778">TS</a>]

00:46:23   will take you 20 years into the past but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2783">TS</a>]

00:46:25   only after it's been operational for 20 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2785">TS</a>]

00:46:27   years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2787">TS</a>]

00:46:27   logically but he came his son runs a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2787">TS</a>]

00:46:31   shop in Cairo that also has an arch and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2791">TS</a>]

00:46:34   that's been in operation for a while so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2794">TS</a>]

00:46:35   you can go forward or backward in time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2795">TS</a>]

00:46:37   and then the main character ends up well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2797">TS</a>]

00:46:40   first there are amusing scenes where he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2800">TS</a>]

00:46:41   sticks his arm through it and waves it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2801">TS</a>]

00:46:43   doesn't come out the other side and all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2803">TS</a>]

00:46:45   of that and they look through and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2805">TS</a>]

00:46:46   see who's on the other side it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2806">TS</a>]

00:46:48   the guy but he's all 20 years older but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2808">TS</a>]

00:46:51   he ends up his wife died 20 years before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2811">TS</a>]

00:46:54   and a horrible accident and so he goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2814">TS</a>]

00:46:56   to Cairo and goes back through to 20 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2816">TS</a>]

00:46:59   years in the past and then comes back to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2819">TS</a>]

00:47:00   Baghdad and you know it is on one level [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2820">TS</a>]

00:47:03   it is just sort of how many different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2823">TS</a>]

00:47:04   explorations can we have the idea of you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2824">TS</a>]

00:47:08   know you can go forward or backward in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2828">TS</a>]

00:47:09   time 20 years but the the way that it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2829">TS</a>]

00:47:12   done in this almost Arabian Nights sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2832">TS</a>]

00:47:14   of style and there are these these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2834">TS</a>]

00:47:16   legendary tales that the man who runs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2836">TS</a>]

00:47:18   the shop tells about different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2838">TS</a>]

00:47:19   characters and the whole you know sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2839">TS</a>]

00:47:21   of horrible tragic things that happen to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2841">TS</a>]

00:47:23   them when they went through into the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2843">TS</a>]

00:47:25   past or the future just you know and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2845">TS</a>]

00:47:28   really i really like it it's actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2848">TS</a>]

00:47:29   not like a lot of his other stories and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2849">TS</a>]

00:47:31   that it is this kind of fantastical you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2851">TS</a>]

00:47:35   know a kind of amusing also somewhat [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2855">TS</a>]

00:47:38   tragic but also some parts of it are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2858">TS</a>]

00:47:40   kind of funny and anyway I like it a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2860">TS</a>]

00:47:43   I think I that stuck with me I I in fact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2863">TS</a>]

00:47:46   i'd look back and realize that that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2866">TS</a>]

00:47:48   a ted chang story because I hadn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2868">TS</a>]

00:47:49   realized that but so I love that story I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2869">TS</a>]

00:47:52   don't know if you guys read that but i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2872">TS</a>]

00:47:53   love that story i read i just went today [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2873">TS</a>]

00:47:55   for the first time and I I thought it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2875">TS</a>]

00:47:57   was it was a beautifully self-contained [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2877">TS</a>]

00:47:59   it's his take on arabian nights and yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2879">TS</a>]

00:48:01   i really i really enjoyed that part of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2881">TS</a>]

00:48:03   it with a time portal my only problem is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2883">TS</a>]

00:48:05   why would the main character after he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2885">TS</a>]

00:48:07   talks to the the shopkeeper any of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2887">TS</a>]

00:48:10   shopkeeper tells these stories where it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2890">TS</a>]

00:48:12   didn't work out the way anyone thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2892">TS</a>]

00:48:13   it would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2893">TS</a>]

00:48:14   and yet he still goes through and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2894">TS</a>]

00:48:16   know it's not going to work out the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2896">TS</a>]

00:48:17   he thinks is going to but then I saw you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2897">TS</a>]

00:48:19   light went on and he had to push the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2899">TS</a>]

00:48:21   button exactly is going to say but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2901">TS</a>]

00:48:22   then this is this theme that touching [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2902">TS</a>]

00:48:24   explorers and that you don't really have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2904">TS</a>]

00:48:25   free will and everything is predestined [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2905">TS</a>]

00:48:27   so no matter what you do it doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2907">TS</a>]

00:48:28   matter because it's going to happen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2908">TS</a>]

00:48:29   anyway hope is the engine that pushes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2909">TS</a>]

00:48:31   you forward but it has no impact on what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2911">TS</a>]

00:48:34   happens when that everything ends [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2914">TS</a>]

00:48:36   tragically assistant his worldview the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2916">TS</a>]

00:48:39   ted chang worldview so the other story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2919">TS</a>]

00:48:41   that I really like is liking what you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2921">TS</a>]

00:48:42   see a documentary Rosalia which is which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2922">TS</a>]

00:48:46   is about the concept that they're there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2926">TS</a>]

00:48:48   is this procedure that can be done where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2928">TS</a>]

00:48:49   they put this little helmet on you and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2929">TS</a>]

00:48:51   it basically it flips a switch in your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2931">TS</a>]

00:48:53   brain and you can no longer you can no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2933">TS</a>]

00:48:56   longer detect whether somebody is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2936">TS</a>]

00:48:58   attractive or unattractive it's shallow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2938">TS</a>]

00:49:02   helped em I suppose if we want to catch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2942">TS</a>]

00:49:05   generally brother's involved along with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2945">TS</a>]

00:49:07   the night at the roxbury sure but i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2947">TS</a>]

00:49:10   going to raise the tone of his condition [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2950">TS</a>]

00:49:12   i really thank you and now you used to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2952">TS</a>]

00:49:15   give us crazy words that are only in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2955">TS</a>]

00:49:17   dictionary and now you bring up movies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2957">TS</a>]

00:49:19   like I've suffered brain damage and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2959">TS</a>]

00:49:21   obviously they put on the little helmet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2961">TS</a>]

00:49:22   this is like this is like the worst-case [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2962">TS</a>]

00:49:24   scenario when you read that Chang [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2964">TS</a>]

00:49:26   stories instead of an alternate your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2966">TS</a>]

00:49:27   brain for the better with expanded [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2967">TS</a>]

00:49:29   consciousness and nonlinear time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2969">TS</a>]

00:49:30   difference even to an aficionado of SNL [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2970">TS</a>]

00:49:33   movies it's so off so like what like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2973">TS</a>]

00:49:35   what you see and it's on a college [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2975">TS</a>]

00:49:37   campus and there's some sort of politics [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2977">TS</a>]

00:49:38   about about this that there's just some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2978">TS</a>]

00:49:41   of the students who went to schools I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2981">TS</a>]

00:49:43   think of private schools where where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2983">TS</a>]

00:49:45   this procedure was mandatory and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2985">TS</a>]

00:49:47   ideas imagine going to high school and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2987">TS</a>]

00:49:49   having nobody be able to tell the pretty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2989">TS</a>]

00:49:51   people from the average looking people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2991">TS</a>]

00:49:54   from the ugly people that they're just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2994">TS</a>]

00:49:55   all people and you have to judge them on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2995">TS</a>]

00:49:57   their personality which is interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2997">TS</a>]

00:49:59   you know in and of itself that is taken [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/2999">TS</a>]

00:50:01   to this other level which is that at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3001">TS</a>]

00:50:03   this college campus they are talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3003">TS</a>]

00:50:05   about making it mandatory or not and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3005">TS</a>]

00:50:08   some of the kids who are coming from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3008">TS</a>]

00:50:09   these private schools are debating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3009">TS</a>]

00:50:11   whether they should have it turned off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3011">TS</a>]

00:50:14   or not and there's the whole issue of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3014">TS</a>]

00:50:16   this pace of asymmetry right where we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3016">TS</a>]

00:50:21   like this apparently with one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3021">TS</a>]

00:50:22   main characters in it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3022">TS</a>]

00:50:23   she's beautiful her boyfriend was in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3023">TS</a>]

00:50:26   high school is unattractive but she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3026">TS</a>]

00:50:28   loved him and didn't realize he was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3028">TS</a>]

00:50:29   unattractive and she but she doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3029">TS</a>]

00:50:32   she's now sort of thrown in with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3032">TS</a>]

00:50:33   sharks because there are people there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3033">TS</a>]

00:50:35   who are talking to her not because of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3035">TS</a>]

00:50:37   her personality but because she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3037">TS</a>]

00:50:38   beautiful and she doesn't even realize [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3038">TS</a>]

00:50:40   she's beautiful and I just I thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3040">TS</a>]

00:50:42   that was a really fascinating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3042">TS</a>]

00:50:43   exploration of that again that core idea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3043">TS</a>]

00:50:46   which is what if there was this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3046">TS</a>]

00:50:48   technology available to make what we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3048">TS</a>]

00:50:51   would think would be like a perfect [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3051">TS</a>]

00:50:53   thing which is to eliminate judging [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3053">TS</a>]

00:50:55   people by their looks and then take it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3055">TS</a>]

00:50:57   to the extreme of well it would really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3057">TS</a>]

00:50:59   be that simple and they would actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3059">TS</a>]

00:51:02   be kind of a mess and there are lots of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3062">TS</a>]

00:51:04   ramifications which is something science [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3064">TS</a>]

00:51:06   fiction does really well and I i really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3066">TS</a>]

00:51:08   enjoyed that about it was interesting as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3068">TS</a>]

00:51:10   its told in this documentary fashion and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3070">TS</a>]

00:51:12   I was actually thinking that might make [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3072">TS</a>]

00:51:14   that might have actually made a good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3074">TS</a>]

00:51:16   novel in the sense that you could have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3076">TS</a>]

00:51:17   really expanded the world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3077">TS</a>]

00:51:19   I suppose it wouldn't have been had the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3079">TS</a>]

00:51:21   impact because it would have probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3081">TS</a>]

00:51:22   been more like I try to picture a nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3082">TS</a>]

00:51:24   sort of imagine it being like a Robert J [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3084">TS</a>]

00:51:26   Sawyer kind of novel there's another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3086">TS</a>]

00:51:28   kind of you know overly expanded and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3088">TS</a>]

00:51:30   more young adults and I'm not sure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3090">TS</a>]

00:51:32   whether you know it would have worked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3092">TS</a>]

00:51:35   but I could see it because you could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3095">TS</a>]

00:51:37   talk about the you know the kids in high [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3097">TS</a>]

00:51:39   school and their relationship and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3099">TS</a>]

00:51:40   talk about them coming to college and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3100">TS</a>]

00:51:41   and it's not told him that way it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3101">TS</a>]

00:51:43   holding this kind of quick cut soundbite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3103">TS</a>]

00:51:46   documentary style of these little bits [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3106">TS</a>]

00:51:49   of clips later against each other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3109">TS</a>]

00:51:52   the neat part of it too is that I'm one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3112">TS</a>]

00:51:53   movie part is that he's got it's one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3113">TS</a>]

00:51:55   his more you more interesting narrative [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3115">TS</a>]

00:51:57   devices stories that uses but you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3117">TS</a>]

00:52:00   not just the issue of some of that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3120">TS</a>]

00:52:04   technology to remove people's ability to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3124">TS</a>]

00:52:07   you know see what they see how people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3127">TS</a>]

00:52:09   really look for or against perceived [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3129">TS</a>]

00:52:10   beauty right that's the thing is yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3130">TS</a>]

00:52:12   its preceding beauty comes with a great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3132">TS</a>]

00:52:14   word what is the word is callie callie's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3134">TS</a>]

00:52:16   what they call it read like Ali agnosia [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3136">TS</a>]

00:52:18   which i think is exactly well I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3138">TS</a>]

00:52:20   it's an actual thing that that there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3140">TS</a>]

00:52:21   they can be you have a stroke or or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3141">TS</a>]

00:52:24   something like that where where it just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3144">TS</a>]

00:52:26   turns off this thing in your brain and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3146">TS</a>]

00:52:27   then you can tell it's like the oliver [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3147">TS</a>]

00:52:29   sacks kind of thing but there's an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3149">TS</a>]

00:52:31   actual story just like this that people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3151">TS</a>]

00:52:34   have people have a prospect nausea which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3154">TS</a>]

00:52:36   the inability to recognize faces right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3156">TS</a>]

00:52:39   so you can see features but you can't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3159">TS</a>]

00:52:41   just be all over South the man who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3161">TS</a>]

00:52:42   mistook his wife for a hat and you was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3162">TS</a>]

00:52:44   part of that part of that thing that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3164">TS</a>]

00:52:46   very interesting once once you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3166">TS</a>]

00:52:47   about prosopagnosia [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3167">TS</a>]

00:52:49   discover that some he thinks that five [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3169">TS</a>]

00:52:50   to ten percent of the population in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3170">TS</a>]

00:52:52   US has some form of it and once you read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3172">TS</a>]

00:52:54   about prospect nosy it's like reading a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3174">TS</a>]

00:52:56   touching story suddenly got metal ask [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3176">TS</a>]

00:52:57   the people you know who have it by how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3177">TS</a>]

00:53:00   they behave towards you before you talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3180">TS</a>]

00:53:01   to them and after you start a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3181">TS</a>]

00:53:03   conversation however that said if that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3183">TS</a>]

00:53:06   said one of the things that's that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3186">TS</a>]

00:53:08   fascinating stories at the bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3188">TS</a>]

00:53:10   underlying so we're talking about one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3190">TS</a>]

00:53:12   thing this cali going to turn on and off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3192">TS</a>]

00:53:13   so that you can proceed whether other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3193">TS</a>]

00:53:15   people are beautiful or not or what they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3195">TS</a>]

00:53:17   look like I guess if you've received [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3197">TS</a>]

00:53:18   some perception of their attractiveness [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3198">TS</a>]

00:53:20   I then at some point store you find out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3200">TS</a>]

00:53:22   that this this consortium that's trying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3202">TS</a>]

00:53:25   to advertise trying to lobby against the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3205">TS</a>]

00:53:28   college and in cali has developed this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3208">TS</a>]

00:53:30   new even more horrible technology that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3210">TS</a>]

00:53:33   allows them to directly influence people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3213">TS</a>]

00:53:35   through like my Croatoan so they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3215">TS</a>]

00:53:37   probably right add at the college that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3217">TS</a>]

00:53:39   leaves everyone voting against turning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3219">TS</a>]

00:53:42   kalyan as a mandatory thing and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3222">TS</a>]

00:53:44   it's discovered that the the advertising [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3224">TS</a>]

00:53:46   firm is just horrible new thing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3226">TS</a>]

00:53:47   never needs to get total ban against [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3227">TS</a>]

00:53:49   because it will allow you know every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3229">TS</a>]

00:53:51   dictator in the world to absolutely rule [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3231">TS</a>]

00:53:54   all the people in it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3234">TS</a>]

00:53:55   yeah because it bypasses your rational [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3235">TS</a>]

00:53:57   brain goes straight to the stuff that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3237">TS</a>]

00:53:59   you're hardwired to recognize attractive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3239">TS</a>]

00:54:00   or influenza 00 so like the route all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3240">TS</a>]

00:54:03   the the root language that we speak in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3243">TS</a>]

00:54:05   our brains strange yeah strange attach a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3245">TS</a>]

00:54:07   story all that the thing I was gonna say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3247">TS</a>]

00:54:09   by the way is so there is a real there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3249">TS</a>]

00:54:11   a story of one of our sexes of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3251">TS</a>]

00:54:12   nonfiction bits about a woman who has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3252">TS</a>]

00:54:15   problems with magnolia and chief [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3255">TS</a>]

00:54:17   she's a beautiful woman has no idea she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3257">TS</a>]

00:54:19   is now a model i believe and she falls [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3259">TS</a>]

00:54:21   in love the guy she was in love with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3261">TS</a>]

00:54:22   this origin is a clown because feature [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3262">TS</a>]

00:54:24   so he is this feature so malleable and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3264">TS</a>]

00:54:27   broadly he's apparently a really goofy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3267">TS</a>]

00:54:29   looking guy who cares I'm like is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3269">TS</a>]

00:54:31   awesome but why is that awesome you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3271">TS</a>]

00:54:33   start to examine the reasons for it all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3273">TS</a>]

00:54:34   becomes extremely convoluted perhaps [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3274">TS</a>]

00:54:37   it's because I look like a clown i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3277">TS</a>]

00:54:38   wearing a red button nose right now as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3278">TS</a>]

00:54:40   we speak [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3280">TS</a>]

00:54:41   Crossing your body shoes whenever the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3281">TS</a>]

00:54:43   other that's right maybe we all say you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3283">TS</a>]

00:54:45   know it's all unfair you should judge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3285">TS</a>]

00:54:47   what's on the inside man [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3287">TS</a>]

00:54:48   neta and that story it's like well the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3288">TS</a>]

00:54:51   grade but it kind of doesn't you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3291">TS</a>]

00:54:54   it's not so simple and if you do that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3294">TS</a>]

00:54:57   then there is the flip side which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3297">TS</a>]

00:54:58   they that that woman gives a speech and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3298">TS</a>]

00:55:00   everybody's like hey [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3300">TS</a>]

00:55:02   she's right we should do what she says [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3302">TS</a>]

00:55:04   and it turns out that they're they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3304">TS</a>]

00:55:06   all being influenced the other way so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3306">TS</a>]

00:55:09   but before we wrap up I wanted to give [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3309">TS</a>]

00:55:11   everybody a chance if they if there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3311">TS</a>]

00:55:13   something out there that they that's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3313">TS</a>]

00:55:15   short story not by ted chang that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3315">TS</a>]

00:55:18   want to to mention a favorite or a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3318">TS</a>]

00:55:21   favorite author who does short stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3321">TS</a>]

00:55:22   or potpourri really now it's now's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3322">TS</a>]

00:55:26   chance [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3326">TS</a>]

00:55:26   anybody have anything i'm going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3326">TS</a>]

00:55:28   recommend David are you sec um it that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3328">TS</a>]

00:55:31   because everybody should read we were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3331">TS</a>]

00:55:33   out of our minds with joy and he does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3333">TS</a>]

00:55:35   have a short story collection on I would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3335">TS</a>]

00:55:37   also recommend reading James Morrow's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3337">TS</a>]

00:55:38   Bible stories for adults but again read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3338">TS</a>]

00:55:40   it when you're not in a bad mood and on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3340">TS</a>]

00:55:44   final guys that is that because it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3344">TS</a>]

00:55:46   going to put you in a bad mood or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3346">TS</a>]

00:55:47   rebellious oh yeah okay yes um [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3347">TS</a>]

00:55:49   there-there was married when you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3349">TS</a>]

00:55:51   headed toward a bad mood now they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3351">TS</a>]

00:55:53   fantastic stories I mean he has a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3353">TS</a>]

00:55:55   beautiful story about a couple that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3355">TS</a>]

00:55:56   inadvertently gives birth to a planet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3356">TS</a>]

00:55:58   and it is one of it is one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3358">TS</a>]

00:56:01   sweetest stories i have ever read about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3361">TS</a>]

00:56:02   what makes a family and what people do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3362">TS</a>]

00:56:04   for their children and and what it means [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3364">TS</a>]

00:56:07   to have to let the child go and you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3367">TS</a>]

00:56:10   it's I'd like to before I had children [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3370">TS</a>]

00:56:12   and now that I have a daughter and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3372">TS</a>]

00:56:14   reread the story it was a big lump in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3374">TS</a>]

00:56:16   the throat moment so but again there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3376">TS</a>]

00:56:19   some remarkably better stories in there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3379">TS</a>]

00:56:21   so you kind of have to watch what you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3381">TS</a>]

00:56:22   doing um and I'm going to also put in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3382">TS</a>]

00:56:25   plug for an old-school story collection [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3385">TS</a>]

00:56:27   that I I like to read whenever I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3387">TS</a>]

00:56:29   feeling perversely in the mood for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3389">TS</a>]

00:56:31   pickup which is a william gibson's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3391">TS</a>]

00:56:34   collection burning chrome hmm good stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3394">TS</a>]

00:56:37   in there there are there are a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3397">TS</a>]

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00:56:49   back the astronauts who were picked up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3409">TS</a>]

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00:57:22   to point B i find very timeless and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3442">TS</a>]

00:57:25   interesting to look at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3445">TS</a>]

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00:57:43   eventually will organize enough of us [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3463">TS</a>]

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00:57:58   is not just like gender bending but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3478">TS</a>]

00:58:00   things that bring up and twist subvert [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3480">TS</a>]

00:58:04   explore issues of of the nature of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3484">TS</a>]

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00:58:11   up i think three anthologies and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3491">TS</a>]

00:58:14   also give awards have used to have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3494">TS</a>]

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00:58:20   stuff that comes out and that stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3500">TS</a>]

00:58:23   are just sometimes excerpts from novels [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3503">TS</a>]

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00:58:27   stuff that it's it's not pedagogical [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3507">TS</a>]

00:58:29   it's not like in the world where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3509">TS</a>]

00:58:31   everyone has three genders and why it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3511">TS</a>]

00:58:34   all really subtle interesting things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3514">TS</a>]

00:58:36   there's one that I remember in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3516">TS</a>]

00:58:38   particular been trying to figure out the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3518">TS</a>]

00:58:40   name of it that some of these funny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3520">TS</a>]

00:58:41   things I it's um I believe it's by a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3521">TS</a>]

00:58:44   government next fold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3524">TS</a>]

00:58:47   it's a story called looking through lace [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3527">TS</a>]

00:58:48   and when you read this story you think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3528">TS</a>]

00:58:51   that it'sit's again about linguistics [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3531">TS</a>]

00:58:53   about linguists going to other planets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3533">TS</a>]

00:58:55   and the roof nest of all is the name and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3535">TS</a>]

00:58:57   it's um what's great about the story is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3537">TS</a>]

00:59:01   this woman lands this planet there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3541">TS</a>]

00:59:03   this old cranky linguist has been there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3543">TS</a>]

00:59:06   for a long time sort of mastered it but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3546">TS</a>]

00:59:07   like the research university back home [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3547">TS</a>]

00:59:09   is like all his work so she goes out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3549">TS</a>]

00:59:11   there you find she finds out he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3551">TS</a>]

00:59:12   entirely entirely supported the research [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3552">TS</a>]

00:59:15   not just by being a man but by entirely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3555">TS</a>]

00:59:19   putting it through the filter of his own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3559">TS</a>]

00:59:20   gender bias and it's a beautiful story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3560">TS</a>]

00:59:23   and you're reading along certain like Oh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3563">TS</a>]

00:59:25   over the whole thing just flipped over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3565">TS</a>]

00:59:28   in my head [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3568">TS</a>]

00:59:28   and now it all becomes clear like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3568">TS</a>]

00:59:31   language becomes clear the culture this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3571">TS</a>]

00:59:33   guy's bigotry and there's a great little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3573">TS</a>]

00:59:35   kicker at the analyst literally else [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3575">TS</a>]

00:59:37   kicker is a spoiler and for it so i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3577">TS</a>]

00:59:40   recommend those collections at all all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3580">TS</a>]

00:59:42   available libraries from the last year's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3582">TS</a>]

00:59:44   know that in the Miles Vorkosigan books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3584">TS</a>]

00:59:46   there is a third ginger which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3586">TS</a>]

00:59:48   actually handled very interestingly the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3588">TS</a>]

00:59:50   the kind of in interim gender character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3590">TS</a>]

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00:59:58   left hand of darkness is all about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3598">TS</a>]

00:59:58   left hand of darkness is all about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3598">TS</a>]

01:00:00   a strange kind of gender mixings and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3600">TS</a>]

01:00:03   merging Scott you have some short story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3603">TS</a>]

01:00:07   thoughts for us i don't really read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3607">TS</a>]

01:00:10   short stories all that much i am more of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3610">TS</a>]

01:00:12   a I like to read novels but i do stovl [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3612">TS</a>]

01:00:18   matinee I have an attention span [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3618">TS</a>]

01:00:21   it's true I like introduction span is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3621">TS</a>]

01:00:25   far too like the the offer to land all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3625">TS</a>]

01:00:27   out for me so don't have to think that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3627">TS</a>]

01:00:29   the fake right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3629">TS</a>]

01:00:30   can you wanted all spelled out for me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3630">TS</a>]

01:00:33   I'm a single man at length with time on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3633">TS</a>]

01:00:36   my hands [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3636">TS</a>]

01:00:37   yeah i will mention a short story that i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3637">TS</a>]

01:00:41   mentioned in a previous podcast that did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3641">TS</a>]

01:00:44   in fact have an effect on me and then it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3644">TS</a>]

01:00:48   turned into a novel which wasn't very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3648">TS</a>]

01:00:49   good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3649">TS</a>]

01:00:50   I i think as when I was a nightfall [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3650">TS</a>]

01:00:54   no I went through and as warehouse phase [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3654">TS</a>]

01:00:57   where i read i want to read everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3657">TS</a>]

01:01:00   you wrote that you wrote something like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3660">TS</a>]

01:01:01   forty thousand books but sometimes right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3661">TS</a>]

01:01:05   right with one hand a manuscript while [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3665">TS</a>]

01:01:07   typing a manuscript with the other takes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3667">TS</a>]

01:01:09   you there's nothing you could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3669">TS</a>]

01:01:10   here's the thing you can say about being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3670">TS</a>]

01:01:11   a dedicated as laughs reader is i have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3671">TS</a>]

01:01:13   read as much as any man is true so I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3673">TS</a>]

01:01:18   read all the foundation stuff and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3678">TS</a>]

01:01:21   whatever the robot detective stories and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3681">TS</a>]

01:01:25   nightfall without read both the short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3685">TS</a>]

01:01:27   story which was fantastic and then the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3687">TS</a>]

01:01:29   the novel that he did with opportunity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3689">TS</a>]

01:01:32   silverberg which was less fantastic but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3692">TS</a>]

01:01:37   the basic idea is it's not a planet that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3697">TS</a>]

01:01:38   that is has three sons so it's never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3698">TS</a>]

01:01:42   really night except for one time every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3702">TS</a>]

01:01:44   thousand years or something like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3704">TS</a>]

01:01:45   and so the the as you might tell by the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3705">TS</a>]

01:01:49   title it is set the night that like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3709">TS</a>]

01:01:53   right before this night falls and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3713">TS</a>]

01:01:55   society just freaks up to check it out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3715">TS</a>]

01:01:59   it's the Stars my god the stars [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3719">TS</a>]

01:02:02   exactly they're pretty alright here's my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3722">TS</a>]

01:02:05   eye i have a bunch so I'm gonna go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3725">TS</a>]

01:02:08   really quick one is a short story that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3728">TS</a>]

01:02:10   loved so much when I read it in analog [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3730">TS</a>]

01:02:12   magazine like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3732">TS</a>]

01:02:13   twenty years ago that i still have that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3733">TS</a>]

01:02:15   issue of analog magazine called [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3735">TS</a>]

01:02:18   hindsight by Eric Iverson but that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3738">TS</a>]

01:02:23   believe that's actually like harry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3743">TS</a>]

01:02:25   turtledove over or something it's a it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3745">TS</a>]

01:02:27   a pseudonym but it's a great short story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3747">TS</a>]

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01:02:34   travel has been intended and people have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3754">TS</a>]

01:02:38   come back in time to the fifties to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3758">TS</a>]

01:02:40   highlight of of science fiction short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3760">TS</a>]

01:02:42   story writing and the end the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3762">TS</a>]

01:02:45   travelers are all science fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3765">TS</a>]

01:02:46   writers so that there's a woman who is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3766">TS</a>]

01:02:51   writing actually you like this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3771">TS</a>]

01:02:54   Glenn she's writing as a man because she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3774">TS</a>]

01:02:57   can't write as a woman and she's riding [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3777">TS</a>]

01:03:01   the short stories and nobody's heard of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3781">TS</a>]

01:03:02   her and one science fiction writer of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3782">TS</a>]

01:03:04   the time the and actually two of them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3784">TS</a>]

01:03:07   they track her down and the thing that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3787">TS</a>]

01:03:10   love about it is actually that there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3790">TS</a>]

01:03:12   something really pure of a scene of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3792">TS</a>]

01:03:15   somebody from at the time the present [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3795">TS</a>]

01:03:17   day trying to explain bits of of history [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3797">TS</a>]

01:03:21   and culture from our present-day to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3801">TS</a>]

01:03:24   somebody in the past i love that it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3804">TS</a>]

01:03:25   that same idea of like how would I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3805">TS</a>]

01:03:26   explain a freeway to george washington [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3806">TS</a>]

01:03:28   right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3808">TS</a>]

01:03:29   how would I explain an airplane to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3809">TS</a>]

01:03:31   Abraham Lincoln they don't have to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3811">TS</a>]

01:03:32   President but I think about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3812">TS</a>]

01:03:33   president's I don't know what there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3813">TS</a>]

01:03:34   great time the dancing bug cartoon in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3814">TS</a>]

01:03:36   which the a very lazy character goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3816">TS</a>]

01:03:38   back in time not his recent spate of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3818">TS</a>]

01:03:41   those and try and says Thomas Jefferson [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3821">TS</a>]

01:03:43   I'm from the future has proved it says [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3823">TS</a>]

01:03:44   behold this bottle of carbonated liquid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3824">TS</a>]

01:03:47   that is seal the retains its carbonation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3827">TS</a>]

01:03:49   like I believe us its ok so in hindsight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3829">TS</a>]

01:03:51   that the to the real killer moments are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3831">TS</a>]

01:03:54   he she pops out of a VHS tape this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3834">TS</a>]

01:03:58   how long ago this was written [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3838">TS</a>]

01:04:00   it's about time travel but VHS VHS tape [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3840">TS</a>]

01:04:03   of star wars in and they don't know what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3843">TS</a>]

01:04:07   it is but as they used to destroy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3847">TS</a>]

01:04:08   describes what she's doing you realize [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3848">TS</a>]

01:04:10   it's a it's a tape player and she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3850">TS</a>]

01:04:12   presses play and Star Wars comes on and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3852">TS</a>]

01:04:15   their first thought is oh my god it's in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3855">TS</a>]

01:04:17   color and every second and the second [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3857">TS</a>]

01:04:21   thought is is that Alec Guinness which I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3861">TS</a>]

01:04:24   don't mind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3864">TS</a>]

01:04:25   I love and then and then when they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3865">TS</a>]

01:04:26   talking and she reveals because they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3866">TS</a>]

01:04:28   all kind of offended that she's she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3868">TS</a>]

01:04:30   not actually coming up with clever idea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3870">TS</a>]

01:04:32   she's stealing ideas from her past and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3872">TS</a>]

01:04:34   that's their future and and she says [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3874">TS</a>]

01:04:37   well that's not entirely true [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3877">TS</a>]

01:04:39   some of them are mind yeah they're like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3879">TS</a>]

01:04:41   yeah you know that Ted offensive story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3881">TS</a>]

01:04:44   and the Watergate story we knew those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3884">TS</a>]

01:04:46   could be true actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3886">TS</a>]

01:04:49   anyway so I love that story it's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3889">TS</a>]

01:04:51   this little short story but I love it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3891">TS</a>]

01:04:53   just pushes all the right buttons for me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3893">TS</a>]

01:04:54   about like time travel and showing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3894">TS</a>]

01:04:56   historical figures things from our time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3896">TS</a>]

01:04:58   and how cool that would be i want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3898">TS</a>]

01:05:00   mention uh which already did the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3900">TS</a>]

01:05:03   gardener does noise does well whatever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3903">TS</a>]

01:05:05   it is your best science fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3905">TS</a>]

01:05:06   anthology is highly recommended comes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3906">TS</a>]

01:05:08   out of every July lots of great stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3908">TS</a>]

01:05:11   and that's where I've read a lot of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3911">TS</a>]

01:05:13   short story writers we talked about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3913">TS</a>]

01:05:14   hearing it in that anthology it's really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3914">TS</a>]

01:05:18   well done hee-hee-hee preface it with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3918">TS</a>]

01:05:20   this kind of ridiculous and boring of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3920">TS</a>]

01:05:23   summation of the year where he like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3923">TS</a>]

01:05:24   lists everything that was ever released [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3924">TS</a>]

01:05:26   in any medium in sci-fi which is just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3926">TS</a>]

01:05:29   skip it but I i really love the stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3929">TS</a>]

01:05:31   and then last because I cannot believe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3931">TS</a>]

01:05:33   this person's name we have talked for an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3933">TS</a>]

01:05:35   hour about sci-fi short stories and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3935">TS</a>]

01:05:37   haven't mentioned this person's name [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3937">TS</a>]

01:05:39   Harlan Ellison for God's sake [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3939">TS</a>]

01:05:42   whoo-hoo Harlan is a new channels AFC me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3942">TS</a>]

01:05:49   ask you this incredibly nice because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3949">TS</a>]

01:05:51   Oeneus I don't buy my one of my junior [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3951">TS</a>]

01:05:54   high [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3954">TS</a>]

01:05:55   english teachers who was a sci-fi not in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3955">TS</a>]

01:05:57   a renaissance fair person she told us [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3957">TS</a>]

01:06:00   the story about in this isn't the 80,000 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3960">TS</a>]

01:06:02   your eye or late seventies release in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3962">TS</a>]

01:06:04   that she really is anyway she said in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3964">TS</a>]

01:06:06   the seventies like Harlan Ellison was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3966">TS</a>]

01:06:07   divided to eugene oregon where I grew up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3967">TS</a>]

01:06:09   and he was staying with his family and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3969">TS</a>]

01:06:11   he was so profoundly foul but the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3971">TS</a>]

01:06:14   parents couldn't have met their dinner [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3974">TS</a>]

01:06:15   tables she had him over to dinner [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3975">TS</a>]

01:06:17   because he couldn't sit at a table with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3977">TS</a>]

01:06:20   chairs they say life is nasty brutish [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3980">TS</a>]

01:06:22   insured and so is Harlan Ellison but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3982">TS</a>]

01:06:25   that all said that guy that guy can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3985">TS</a>]

01:06:28   write and that guy can make sure it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3988">TS</a>]

01:06:29   the right and some of the most amazing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3989">TS</a>]

01:06:31   and affecting stories it's not only the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3991">TS</a>]

01:06:34   famous older stuff like repent Harlequin [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3994">TS</a>]

01:06:37   said the tick-tock man [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3997">TS</a>]

01:06:38   or just to drift off the aisles of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/3998">TS</a>]

01:06:40   language yeah you know the deathbed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4000">TS</a>]

01:06:42   stories but i really love the shattered [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4002">TS</a>]

01:06:46   a collection including saturday and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4006">TS</a>]

01:06:48   paladin lost our which were made into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4008">TS</a>]

01:06:50   new twilight zone episodes that were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4010">TS</a>]

01:06:52   actually pretty good but uh his book I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4012">TS</a>]

01:06:57   think it's angry candy which is one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4017">TS</a>]

01:06:59   his recent one of it one of his more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4019">TS</a>]

01:07:01   sort of latter day collections some some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4021">TS</a>]

01:07:06   amazing stuff including a story called [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4026">TS</a>]

01:07:08   the function of dream sleep that will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4028">TS</a>]

01:07:10   just rip your heart out and another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4030">TS</a>]

01:07:13   story that when both of my kids pass [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4033">TS</a>]

01:07:16   through the age of five [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4036">TS</a>]

01:07:17   my wife and I spent an entire year [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4037">TS</a>]

01:07:18   talking about which is a story called [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4038">TS</a>]

01:07:20   Jeff ds5 which is about the kids that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4040">TS</a>]

01:07:22   never ages [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4042">TS</a>]

01:07:24   Jeff ds5 he's always five seriously you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4044">TS</a>]

01:07:28   know if you haven't read the short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4048">TS</a>]

01:07:29   stories of Harlan Ellison for pete's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4049">TS</a>]

01:07:32   sake just you know find find one find [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4052">TS</a>]

01:07:34   one of the collections and and buy it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4054">TS</a>]

01:07:36   and I'm telling you you won't be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4056">TS</a>]

01:07:38   disappointed because not only is he an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4058">TS</a>]

01:07:39   amazing stylist but some of the ideas [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4059">TS</a>]

01:07:42   and some of those surgeries are so crazy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4062">TS</a>]

01:07:45   and it's all kind of magic realism it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4065">TS</a>]

01:07:48   it you know II but it's it's amazing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4068">TS</a>]

01:07:50   stuff so he is he's not a best short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4070">TS</a>]

01:07:53   story writer i have ever read now you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4073">TS</a>]

01:07:56   know also that this is not a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4076">TS</a>]

01:07:57   little-known fact this is a well-known [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4077">TS</a>]

01:07:58   fact I will state in case of our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4078">TS</a>]

01:08:00   listeners underwear is that Harlan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4080">TS</a>]

01:08:02   Ellison does not revive so all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4082">TS</a>]

01:08:04   stories were written extensively in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4084">TS</a>]

01:08:06   single draught and never revised yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4086">TS</a>]

01:08:08   I'm not sure I so he could believe that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4088">TS</a>]

01:08:10   but claimed he claims a lot of things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4090">TS</a>]

01:08:12   that he wants but but but he has his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4092">TS</a>]

01:08:14   famous only have written for having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4094">TS</a>]

01:08:16   written he used to do this thing where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4096">TS</a>]

01:08:18   he would write short stories in windows [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4098">TS</a>]

01:08:19   of bookstores [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4099">TS</a>]

01:08:20   yeah and that he would write them and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4100">TS</a>]

01:08:22   then that would be it and I do believe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4102">TS</a>]

01:08:24   that but those aren't his best stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4104">TS</a>]

01:08:26   which is why i don't believe that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4106">TS</a>]

01:08:27   doesn't revise them but and he's he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4107">TS</a>]

01:08:29   getting up there and and he's he wrote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4109">TS</a>]

01:08:31   something last year that basically said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4111">TS</a>]

01:08:32   I'm gonna die soon and I'm not quite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4112">TS</a>]

01:08:34   sure whether that's true or whether he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4114">TS</a>]

01:08:36   just you know what got a complex about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4116">TS</a>]

01:08:38   it but you know he he's got enough stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4118">TS</a>]

01:08:42   in print now I think all of his stuff is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4122">TS</a>]

01:08:43   back in print in fact now I bought it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4123">TS</a>]

01:08:45   all when it was all in used bookstores [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4125">TS</a>]

01:08:47   and of course now it's all back in print [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4127">TS</a>]

01:08:49   but lot of great collections angry candy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4129">TS</a>]

01:08:52   shattered a desperate stories lots of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4132">TS</a>]

01:08:55   good stuff out there and if you want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4135">TS</a>]

01:08:56   see more of Harlan Ellison the man can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4136">TS</a>]

01:08:59   check out Harlan Ellison dreams with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4139">TS</a>]

01:09:01   sharp teeth which is a documentary [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4141">TS</a>]

01:09:03   oh my god him available on the character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4143">TS</a>]

01:09:06   is a character there's also there's also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4146">TS</a>]

01:09:08   a website run by other people i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4148">TS</a>]

01:09:10   this was designed not just designed in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4150">TS</a>]

01:09:13   1996 what I think designed in a previous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4153">TS</a>]

01:09:15   epic like before the wedding yesterday [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4155">TS</a>]

01:09:17   designed it thinking the web might work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4157">TS</a>]

01:09:19   this way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4159">TS</a>]

01:09:20   yes it's bizarre alice in wonderland you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4160">TS</a>]

01:09:22   mean yes it's very straight and she sold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4162">TS</a>]

01:09:25   his desk and get oh yeah it's it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4165">TS</a>]

01:09:27   it's he said he's a issues i actually i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4167">TS</a>]

01:09:30   actually bought the the city on the edge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4170">TS</a>]

01:09:32   of forever the star trek episode that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4172">TS</a>]

01:09:34   wrote i bought the book it's the the his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4174">TS</a>]

01:09:36   original screenplay which is which you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4176">TS</a>]

01:09:38   can see why they changed it just like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4178">TS</a>]

01:09:40   there's a drug dealers on the enterprise [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4180">TS</a>]

01:09:42   that is why huh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4182">TS</a>]

01:09:44   but but he's got a whole story about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4184">TS</a>]

01:09:47   getting screwed by the man it in having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4187">TS</a>]

01:09:51   his story changed and the funny thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4191">TS</a>]

01:09:54   about it is that in the process of of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4194">TS</a>]

01:09:56   writing this special edition with all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4196">TS</a>]

01:09:58   these these comments he discovered the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4198">TS</a>]

01:10:00   Dorothy Fontana who was one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4200">TS</a>]

01:10:02   script of just four star trek and a good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4202">TS</a>]

01:10:04   friend of Harlan's for all this time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4204">TS</a>]

01:10:05   she's the one who rewrote his episode go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4205">TS</a>]

01:10:09   ahead and he he's almost all most [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4209">TS</a>]

01:10:11   fortified not possible to actually be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4211">TS</a>]

01:10:12   mortified if you're Harlan else but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4212">TS</a>]

01:10:14   almost mortified that the person that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4214">TS</a>]

01:10:16   he's been saying I don't know who would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4216">TS</a>]

01:10:17   hack destroyed my episode is this person [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4217">TS</a>]

01:10:19   who was his friend for the you know for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4219">TS</a>]

01:10:21   the past 20 years and she basically says [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4221">TS</a>]

01:10:23   well of course I didn't tell you it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4223">TS</a>]

01:10:25   me you know but so anyway it is possible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4225">TS</a>]

01:10:29   that by booking his name is possible he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4229">TS</a>]

01:10:31   will listen you were looking for this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4231">TS</a>]

01:10:32   podcast and call us up angrily which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4232">TS</a>]

01:10:34   will be able to us know again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4234">TS</a>]

01:10:36   well can I wanted to actually mention [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4236">TS</a>]

01:10:38   another at a different editor who's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4238">TS</a>]

01:10:40   collections of short stories are worth [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4240">TS</a>]

01:10:42   reading who I'd forgotten about until [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4242">TS</a>]

01:10:43   you guys are talking a few minutes ago [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4243">TS</a>]

01:10:45   ok song with the past mike resnick be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4245">TS</a>]

01:10:48   alright with mike resnick back in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4248">TS</a>]

01:10:52   eighties and nineties pulled together a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4252">TS</a>]

01:10:55   bunch of different collections called [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4255">TS</a>]

01:10:56   alternate outlaws alternate heroes or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4256">TS</a>]

01:10:59   alternate tyrants my favorite that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4259">TS</a>]

01:11:01   collections actually alternate Kennedy's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4261">TS</a>]

01:11:03   and as you can imagine all of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4263">TS</a>]

01:11:05   collections are centered around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4265">TS</a>]

01:11:07   historical syfy we're basically someone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4267">TS</a>]

01:11:09   says what if X happens instead of Y and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4269">TS</a>]

01:11:12   then takes its logical conclusion such [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4272">TS</a>]

01:11:14   as what if mother Theresa became a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4274">TS</a>]

01:11:16   gun-wielding bank bank robber on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4276">TS</a>]

01:11:20   awesome the alternate Kennedy's is my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4280">TS</a>]

01:11:23   favorite collection just because you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4283">TS</a>]

01:11:24   know it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4284">TS</a>]

01:11:25   most of the stories take place in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaJXnJU/4285">TS</a>]

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